CVE-2025-4373 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-4373

Glib: buffer underflow on glib through glib/gstring.c via function g_string_insert_unichar

Vulnerability Description

A flaw was found in GLib, which is vulnerable to an integer overflow in the g_string_insert_unichar() function. When the position at which to insert the character is large, the position will overflow, leading to a buffer underwrite.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support, Red Hat Insights proxy 1.5, Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.6.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0:2.80.4-4.el10_0.6, 0:2.56.4-166.el8_10, 0:2.56.4-8.el8_2.2, 0:2.56.4-10.el8_4.2, 0:2.56.4-158.el8_6.2, 0:2.56.4-162.el8_8, 0:2.68.4-16.el9_6.2, 0:2.68.4-5.el9_0.2, 0:2.68.4-7.el9_2.2, 0:2.68.4-14.el9_4.3, 1.5.5-1754504343, rhosdt-3.6-1753265330, rhosdt-3.6-1753265394, rhosdt-3.6-1753265332, rhosdt-3.6-1753265435, rhosdt-3.6-1753265342, rhosdt-3.6-1753269432, rhosdt-3.6-1753265411, rhosdt-3.6-1753265314

Timeline

Official Publish: May 6th, 2025
Last Modified: July 14th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.