DEBIAN-CVE-2021-27219

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-27219
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Upstream
Published
2021-02-15T17:15:13Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:27Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.6 and 2.67.x before 2.67.3. The function gbytesnew 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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / glib2.0

Package

Name
glib2.0
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/glib2.0?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.66.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / glib2.0

Package

Name
glib2.0
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/glib2.0?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.66.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / glib2.0

Package

Name
glib2.0
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/glib2.0?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.66.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / glib2.0

Package

Name
glib2.0
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/glib2.0?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.66.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}