A vulnerability was found in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.53. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function gsf_property_settings_collec. The manipulation of the argument n_alloced_params leads to heap-based buffer overflow. Attacking locally is a requirement. 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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2723 cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.300743 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?id.300743 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?submit.520183 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2723 cve-icon
https://www.gnome.org/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
History

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 02:15:00 +0000

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References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 threat_severity

Moderate

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

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Metrics ssvc

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

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:15:00 +0000

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Description A vulnerability was found in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.53. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function gsf_property_settings_collec. The manipulation of the argument n_alloced_params leads to heap-based buffer overflow. Attacking locally is a requirement. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Title GNOME libgsf gsf_property_settings_collec 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: 2025-03-25T01:00:06.666Z

Updated: 2025-03-25T13:26:03.279Z

Reserved: 2025-03-24T12:46:32.307Z

Link: CVE-2025-2723

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-03-25T13:25:59.563Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-03-25T01:15:11.800

Modified: 2025-03-25T01:15:11.800

Link: CVE-2025-2723

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-03-25T01:00:06Z

Links: CVE-2025-2723 - Bugzilla