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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-35457: glib2 security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-35457: glib2 security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/14/2020
Created
09/20/2021
Added
09/16/2021
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

GNOME GLib before 2.65.3 has an integer overflow, that might lead to an out-of-bounds write, in g_option_group_add_entries. NOTE: the vendor's position is "Realistically this is not a security issue. The standard pattern is for callers to provide a static list of option entries in a fixed number of calls to g_option_group_add_entries()." The researcher states that this pattern is undocumented

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-glib2
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-glib2-devel

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