CVE-2021-27218

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-27218
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-02-15 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:31:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-681

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Broadcom Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware - All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Gnome Glib All All All All
Application Gnome Glib All All All All
Application Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager - All All All
Application Netapp Cloud Backup - All All All
Application Netapp E-series Performance Analyzer - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: mingw-glib2-2.66.7-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8 lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: mingw-glib2-2.66.7-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
February 2021 GNOME GLib Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
GLib: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202107-13) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3044-1] glib2.0 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: mingw-glib2-2.66.7-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE-2021-27218: gbytearray: Do not accept too large byte arrays (!1942) · Merge Requests · GNOME / GLib · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8 lists.apache.org
Backport !1942 “CVE-2021-27218: gbytearray: Do not accept too large byte arrays” to glib-2-66 (!1944) · Merge Requests · GNOME / GLib · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
[mina-dev] 20210225 [jira] [Created] (FTPSERVER-500) Security vulnerability in common/lib/log4j-1.2.17.jar lists.apache.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: mingw-glib2-2.66.7-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159330 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for glib2 (ELSA-2021-3058)
  • 174791 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security update for glib2 (SUSE-SU-2021:0778-1)
  • 174826 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security update for glib2 (SUSE-SU-2021:0890-1)
  • 179358 Debian Security Update for glib2.0 (DLA 3044-1)
  • 179683 Debian Security Update for glib2.0 (CVE-2021-27218)
  • 239540 Red Hat Update for glib2 (RHSA-2021:3058)
  • 281538 Fedora Security Update for mingw (FEDORA-2021-7b5e2e6844)
  • 281539 Fedora Security Update for mingw (FEDORA-2021-7c71cda8da)
  • 352856 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for glib2: ALAS2-2021-1711
  • 377338 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for glib2 (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0055)
  • 501414 Alpine Linux Security Update for glib
  • 670287 EulerOS Security Update for glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-1789)
  • 670326 EulerOS Security Update for glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-1898)
  • 670353 EulerOS Security Update for glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-1871)
  • 670380 EulerOS Security Update for glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-1945)
  • 670401 EulerOS Security Update for glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-1924)
  • 670615 EulerOS Security Update for glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2373)
  • 710063 Gentoo Linux GLib Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202107-13)
  • 750321 OpenSUSE Security Update for glib2 (openSUSE-SU-2021:0406-1)
  • 900161 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for glib 2.58.0
  • 901414 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for glib (6437-1)
  • 902931 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for glib (3893)
  • 940021 AlmaLinux Security Update for glib2 (ALSA-2021:3058)
  • 940356 AlmaLinux Security Update for mingw-glib2 (ALSA-2021:4526)
  • 960031 Rocky Linux Security Update for glib2 (RLSA-2021:3058)
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