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CVE-2018-16428

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In GNOME GLib 2.56.1, g_markup_parse_context_end_parse() in gmarkup.c has a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
• GNOME GLib: 2.56.1

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/14/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105210
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/commit/fccef3cc822af74699cca84cd202719ae61ca3b9
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1364
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00029.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-2/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/14/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105210
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/commit/fccef3cc822af74699cca84cd202719ae61ca3b9
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1364
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00029.html

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