A vulnerability was found in GNOME gvdb. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function gvdb_table_write_contents_async of the file gvdb-builder.c. The manipulation leads to use after free. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The name of the patch is d83587b2a364eb9a9a53be7e6a708074e252de14. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-216789 was assigned to this vulnerability.
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gvariant_database | Gnome | * | 2019-06-27 (excluding) |
| Epiphany-browser | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Epiphany-browser | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Epiphany-browser | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
| Glib2.0 | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Glib2.0 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Glib2.0 | Ubuntu | xenial | * |