CVE-2025-2720 - GNOME libgsf Uninitialized Variable Use Local Buffer Overflow

CVE-2025-2720 - GNOME libgsf Uninitialized Variable Use Local Buffer Overflow

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CVE ID : CVE-2025-2720
Published : March 25, 2025, 12:15 a.m. | 24 minutes ago
Description : A vulnerability was found in GNOME libgsf up to 1.14.53 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function gsf_base64_encode_simple. The manipulation of the argument size leads to use of uninitialized variable. The attack needs to be approached locally. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Severity: 3.3 | LOW
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