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High ALAS2-2021-1655 1 CVE

Important: glib2 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jun 16, 2021 · Updated Jun 22, 2021

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-27219: 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. 1929858: CVE-2021-27219 glib: integer overflow in g_bytes_new function on 64-bit platforms due to an implicit cast from 64 bits to 32 bits

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 glib2 0:2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 glib2-debuginfo 0:2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 glib2-devel 0:2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 glib2-doc 0:2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 glib2-fam 0:2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 glib2-static 0:2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 glib2-tests 0:2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-27219.html