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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-27218: Moderate: glib2 security update (Multiple Advisories)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-27218: Moderate: 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
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

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)

  • alma-upgrade-glib2-doc
  • alma-upgrade-glib2-static
  • alma-upgrade-mingw32-glib2
  • alma-upgrade-mingw32-glib2-static
  • alma-upgrade-mingw64-glib2
  • alma-upgrade-mingw64-glib2-static

References

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