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🛡️ ALSA-2026:42090 — glib2 (CVE-2026-58016)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Important: glib2 security update

GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. It provides the core object system used in GNOME, the main loop implementation, and a large set of utility functions for strings and common data structures.

Security Fix(es):

  • glib: integer underflow in gio/gdbusintrospection.c via "g_dbus_node_info_new_for_xml" (CVE-2026-58016)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Affected software

ALSA-2026:42090 is recorded against 6 packages.

  • glib2 (fixed in 2.56.4-170.el8_10)
  • glib2-devel (fixed in 2.56.4-170.el8_10)
  • glib2-doc (fixed in 2.56.4-170.el8_10)
  • glib2-fam (fixed in 2.56.4-170.el8_10)
  • glib2-static (fixed in 2.56.4-170.el8_10)
  • glib2-tests (fixed in 2.56.4-170.el8_10)

Timeline and source

Published on 20 July 2026 and last revised on 21 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

access.redhat.com (Advisory)
access.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
errata.almalinux.org (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

glib2 has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-20
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
glib2 — 2.56.4-170.el8_10
glib2-devel — 2.56.4-170.el8_10
glib2-doc — 2.56.4-170.el8_10
glib2-fam — 2.56.4-170.el8_10
glib2-static — 2.56.4-170.el8_10
glib2-tests — 2.56.4-170.el8_10

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