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Red Hat: CVE-2021-27219: Important: glib2 security update (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2021-27219: Important: glib2 security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/15/2021
Created
06/01/2021
Added
06/01/2021
Modified
06/03/2021

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-glib2
  • redhat-upgrade-glib2-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-glib2-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-glib2-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-glib2-devel-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-glib2-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-glib2-fam
  • redhat-upgrade-glib2-fam-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-glib2-static
  • redhat-upgrade-glib2-tests
  • redhat-upgrade-glib2-tests-debuginfo

References

  • CVE-2021-27219

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