Debian 9: DLA-3044-1 Moderate: glib2.0 Memory Corruption Issues

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June 6, 2022

Several security vulnerabilities were found in glib2.0, a general-purpose utility library for the GNOME environment

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Debian memory corruption memory issues glib2.0 length truncation

Summary

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.

CVE-2021-27219

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.

CVE-2021-28153

When g_file_replace() is used with G_FILE_CREATE_REPLACE_DESTINATION to
replace a path that is a dangling symlink, it incorrectly also creates the
target of the symlink as an empty file, which could conceivably have
security relevance if the symlink is attacker-controlled. (If the path is
a symlink to a file that already exists, then the contents of that file
correctly remain unchanged.)

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version
2.50.3-2+deb9u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your glib2.0 packages.

For the detailed security status of glib2.0 please refer to