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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-27218: Security patch for glib2 (ALAS-2021-1711)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-27218: Security patch for glib2 (ALAS-2021-1711)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/15/2021
Created
10/08/2021
Added
10/07/2021
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.7 and 2.67.x before 2.67.4. If g_byte_array_new_take() was called with a buffer of 4GB or more on a 64-bit platform, the length would be truncated modulo 2**32, causing unintended length truncation.

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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