CVE-2021-27219

Description

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.

CVSS breakdown

Affected products

• Broadcom / brocade_fabric_operating_system_firmware
• Debian / debian_linux9.0 – 9.0
• fedoraproject / fedora33 – 33
• fedoraproject / fedora34 – 34
• GNOME / GLib2.66.6
• NetApp / active_iq_unified_manager
• NetApp / cloud_backup
• NetApp / e-series_performance_analyzer

References

• MISChttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2319
• MAILING_LISThttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
• MAILING_LISThttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2REA7RVKN7ZHRLJOEGBRQKJIPZQPAELZ/
• MISChttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210319-0004/
• MAILING_LISThttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JJMPNDO4GDVURYQFYKFOWY5HAF4FTEPN/
• MISChttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-13
• MAILING_LISThttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00006.html