GNOME GLib before 2.65.3 has an integer overflow, that might lead to an out-of-bounds write, in goptiongroupaddentries. NOTE: the vendor's position is "Realistically this is not a security issue. The standard pattern is for callers to provide a static list of option entries in a fixed number of calls to goptiongroupaddentries()." The researcher states that this pattern is undocumented
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"id": "CVE-2020-35457",
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2020-35457",
"published": "2020-12-14T23:15:12.173Z",
"imported": "2025-10-19T21:13:23.537Z",
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35457",
"modified": "2024-11-21T05:27:19.393Z"
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