CVE-2021-27219

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnome
Status
Glib
Vendor
CVE Published:
15 February 2021

Summary

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.

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2319
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4...
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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