RHSA-2021:4526HighCVSS 9.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: mingw-glib2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published
November 9, 2021
Last Modified
October 14, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2021-27219 →CVE-2021-27218 →

📋 Description

CVE-2021-27218 — glib: integer overflow in g_byte_array_new_take function when called with a buffer of 4GB or more on a 64-bit platform 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 products8

  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • mingw-glib2-0:2.66.7-2.el8.src as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • mingw32-glib2-0:2.66.7-2.el8.noarch as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • mingw32-glib2-debuginfo-0:2.66.7-2.el8.noarch as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • mingw32-glib2-static-0:2.66.7-2.el8.noarch as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • mingw64-glib2-0:2.66.7-2.el8.noarch as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • mingw64-glib2-debuginfo-0:2.66.7-2.el8.noarch as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)
  • mingw64-glib2-static-0:2.66.7-2.el8.noarch as a component of Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8)

✅ 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 (6)