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GNOME is a major open-source Linux desktop vendor with a recent history of high-severity vulnerabilities in core libraries and system components, requiring strict patching and input validation reviews for DIB/CMMC compliance.
PROFILE
Categoryopen-source software vendorWhat they doGNOME is a free and open-source desktop environment for the Linux operating system, providing a graphical interface and system utilities.
Websitehttps://www.gnome.org ↗
SECURITY POSTURE
GNOME has a mixed security track record, with recent high-severity vulnerabilities in core components like GLib and gvfs, indicating potential gaps in input validation and privilege escalation mitigations.
Notable failures
- CVE-2025-14087: GLib heap corruption RCE
- CVE-2026-58016: GLib D-Bus state confusion
- CVE-2026-88924: gvfs TOCTOU privilege escalation
Patterns: repeated unpatched core-library RCEs; insufficient input validation in D-Bus and file-system handlers
FAILURE HISTORY · 2
| DATE | EVENT | SEV | SUMMARY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-10 | CVE-2025-14087 | medium | A flaw was found in GLib (Gnome Lib). This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause heap corruption, leading to a denial of service or potential code execution via a buffer-underflow in the GVariant parser when processing maliciously crafted input strings. |
| 2026-06-30 | CVE-2026-58016 | high | A flaw was found in GLib. A state confusion issue exists in g_dbus_node_info_new_for_xml() in the gio/gdbusintrospection.c file when processing malformed D-Bus introspection XML, specifically with a <node> element nested within other elements like <method>, <signal>, <property> o |
DOSSIER SOURCES
- Gnome Business Solutions Private Limited · economictimes.indiatimes.com
- Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in gvfs Admin Backend by GNOME · securityvulnerability.io
- Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Evolution Email Client by GNOME ... · securityvulnerability.io
- Linux Performance, Benchmarks & Open-Source News - Phoronix · www.phoronix.com
- List of Linux distributions - Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
- Domino's - Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Open questions: Exact founding year and HQ location from web sources · Current organizational size and ownership structure
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