CVE-2025-2720 – GNOME libgsf Uninitialized Variable Use Local Buffer Overflow

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CVE-2025-2720 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Mar. 25, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description A vulnerability was found in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.53 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function gsf_base64_encode_simple. The manipulation of the argument size leads to use of uninitialized variable. The attack needs to be approached locally. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
    Added CWE CWE-453
    Added CWE CWE-457
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.300740
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?id.300740
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?submit.520180
    Added Reference https://www.gnome.org/
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