Answer in brief
CVE-2026-1489 records a Medium severity (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability in Glib: glib: memory corruption via integer overflow in unicode case conversion. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Red Hat/bootc (generic), Red Hat/glib2 (generic), Red Hat/glycin-loaders (generic), Red Hat/librsvg2 (generic) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 5.4. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Red Hat/bootc (generic), Red Hat/glib2 (generic), Red Hat/glycin-loaders (generic), Red Hat/librsvg2 (generic) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat/bootcgeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/glib2generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/glycin-loadersgeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/librsvg2generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/loupegeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/mingw-glib2generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/papersgeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rpm-ostreegeneric | * | Not reported |
| Siemens/RUGGEDCOM RST2428Pgeneric | >=0 <V4.0 | V4.0 |
Published upstream
Jan 27, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Nov 5, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Nov 5, 2026
A flaw was found in GLib. An integer overflow vulnerability in its Unicode case conversion implementation can lead to memory corruption. By processing specially crafted and extremely large Unicode strings, an attacker could trigger an undersized memory allocation, resulting in out-of-bounds writes. This could cause applications utilizing GLib for string conversion to crash or become unstable.
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