CVE record · CVE-2026-0988

Glib: glib: denial of service via integer overflow in g_buffered_input_stream_peek()

CVSS 3.7 LowEPSS 0.0043 · 37th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 21 Jan 2026, 11:38 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Hardened Images Package name: glib2-main https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 2.88.0-1.1.hum1 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: bootc https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: glib2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: glycin-loaders https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: loupe https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: mingw-glib2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: papers https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: rpm-ostree https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: glib2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: glib2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: glib2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: librsvg2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: mingw-glib2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: bootc https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: glib2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: librsvg2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: mingw-glib2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-0988
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-190
Tags: Red Hat Hardened Images
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Memory corruption
Published: 21 Jan 2026
Updated: 24 Apr 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
3.7	Low	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0043, the 37th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 21 Jan 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7461 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0988 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429886 issue-trackingredhat
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/3851

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