A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.53. Affected is the function sorting_key_copy. The manipulation of the argument Name leads to out-of-bounds read. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. 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 None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact None

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 None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

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-2025-2724 cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.300744 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?id.300744 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?submit.520184 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2724 cve-icon
https://www.gnome.org/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
History

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

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 threat_severity

Low

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 01:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.53. Affected is the function sorting_key_copy. The manipulation of the argument Name leads to out-of-bounds read. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Title GNOME libgsf sorting_key_copy out-of-bounds
Weaknesses CWE-119
CWE-125
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 1.7, 'vector': 'AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}

cvssV4_0

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

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published: 2025-03-25T01:31:04.182Z

Updated: 2025-03-25T13:24:41.680Z

Reserved: 2025-03-24T12:46:34.800Z

Link: CVE-2025-2724

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-03-25T13:24:38.301Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-03-25T02:15:14.143

Modified: 2025-03-25T02:15:14.143

Link: CVE-2025-2724

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2025-03-25T01:31:04Z

Links: CVE-2025-2724 - Bugzilla