Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-27219: Security patch for glib2 (ALAS-2021-1655)
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
02/15/2021
06/25/2021
06/24/2021
06/24/2021
Description
An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.6 and 2.67.x before 2.67.3. The function g_bytes_new has an integer overflow on 64-bit platforms due to an implicit cast from 64 bits to 32 bits. The overflow could potentially lead to memory corruption.
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
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