CVE-2008-4316: Gnome Glib

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple integer overflows in glib/gbase64.c in GLib before 2.20 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string that is converted either (1) from or (2) to a base64 representation.

Affected products

• Gnome Glib: up to and including 2.16.4; version 2.2.1 only; version 2.14.5 only; version 2.14.6 only; version 2.16.3 only

Published 2009-03-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.