CVE-2018-16429

HIGH 7.5CVE-2018-16429 · Published 04/09/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-16429 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting glib (gnome).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.5%, higher than 89.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
glib gnome	`= 2.56.1`	No fix yet

GNOME GLib 2.56.1 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c, related to utf8_str().

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

= 2.56.1

No fix yet

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