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CVE-2024-52533

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-11-11 · updated 2026-10-15
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

gio/gsocks4aproxy.c in GNOME GLib before 2.82.1 has an off-by-one error and resultant buffer overflow because SOCKS4_CONN_MSG_LEN is not sufficient for a trailing '\0' character.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• GNOME GLib: before 2.82.1 — fixed in 2.82.1
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
• NetApp Ontap Tools: 10

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNOME GLib 2.82.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/3461
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/releases/2.82.1
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Releng/security/-/wikis/home
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/12/11
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00020.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241206-0009/
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-089022.html
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-202008.html
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html

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