CVE-2025-60019

Publication date 25 September 2025

Last updated 1 October 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

glib-networking's OpenSSL backend fails to properly check the return value of memory allocation routines. An out of memory condition could potentially result in writing to an invalid memory location.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
glib-networking	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

In Ubuntu, glib-networking is built with GnuTLS, and not OpenSSL, so the vulnerable OpenSSL backend is not used.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
glib-networking	Upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib-networking/-/merge_requests/263

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	3.7 · Low
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L