RHSA-2021:2467HighCVSS 9.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: glib2 security update

Published
June 17, 2021
Last Modified
October 14, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

CVE-2021-27219 — glib: integer overflow in g_bytes_new function on 64-bit platforms due to an implicit cast from 64 bits to 32 bits

🎯 Affected products22

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-debuginfo-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-debuginfo-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-debuginfo-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-debuginfo-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-debuginfo-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-debuginfo-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-debuginfo-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-devel-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-devel-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-devel-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-devel-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-doc-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-static-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-static-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6 ELS)
  • glib2-static-0:2.28.8-11.el6_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6 ELS)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (4)