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Medium ALSA-2024:3214 1 CVE

Moderate: gmp security update

Published May 22, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The gmp packages contain GNU MP, a library for arbitrary precision arithmetics, signed integers operations, rational numbers, and floating point numbers.

Security Fix(es):

* gmp: Integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow via crafted input (CVE-2021-43618)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 gmp 1:6.1.2-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 gmp-c++ 1:6.1.2-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 gmp-devel 1:6.1.2-11.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43618
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2024904
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-3214.html