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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-16429: Security patch for glib2 (ALAS-2023-2049)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-16429: Security patch for glib2 (ALAS-2023-2049)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/04/2018
Created
05/17/2023
Added
05/17/2023
Modified
05/17/2023

Description

GNOME GLib 2.56.1 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c, related to utf8_str().

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-glib2
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-glib2-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-glib2-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-glib2-doc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-glib2-fam
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-glib2-static
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-glib2-tests

References

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