High RHSA-2026:1608 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: glib2 security update

Published Feb 2, 2026 · Updated Sep 1, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 7

Release	Package	Fixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	glib2	0:2.56.1-11.el7_9
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	glib2-debuginfo	0:2.56.1-11.el7_9
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	glib2-devel	0:2.56.1-11.el7_9
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	glib2-doc	0:2.56.1-11.el7_9
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	glib2-fam	0:2.56.1-11.el7_9
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	glib2-static	0:2.56.1-11.el7_9
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	glib2-tests	0:2.56.1-11.el7_9

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.7

CVE-2025-13601

Glib: integer overflow in in g_escape_uri_string()

A heap-based buffer overflow problem was found in glib through an incorrect calculation of buffer size in the g_escape_uri_string() function. If the string to escape contains a very large number of unacceptable characters (which would need escaping), the calc…

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Nov 26, 2025

References

article
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2416741
advisory
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_1608.json
report
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-13601
advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-13601
advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13601
article
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/3827
article
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/4914