A vulnerability was found in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.53. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function gsf_base64_encode_simple. The manipulation of the argument size_t leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Metrics

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact Low

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact Low

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

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References
Link Providers
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.300741 cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?id.300741 cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?submit.520181 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.gnome.org/ cve-icon cve-icon
History

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:15:00 +0000

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Description A vulnerability was found in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.53. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function gsf_base64_encode_simple. The manipulation of the argument size_t leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Title GNOME libgsf gsf_base64_encode_simple heap-based overflow
Weaknesses CWE-119
CWE-122
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published: 2025-03-25T00:00:10.522Z

Updated: 2025-03-25T13:59:31.520Z

Reserved: 2025-03-24T12:46:21.132Z

Link: CVE-2025-2721

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-03-25T13:53:39.273Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-03-25T00:15:15.693

Modified: 2025-03-25T00:15:15.693

Link: CVE-2025-2721

cve-icon Redhat

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