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SUSE: 2021:0801-1 Important: glib2 Integer Overflow Critical DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey March 16, 2021
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Advisory: Urgent patch for glibc tackling three discovered vulnerabilities and affecting various offerings.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for glib2 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2021-27218: g_byte_array_new_take takes a gsize as length but stores in a guint, this patch will refuse if the length is larger than guint. (bsc#1182328) - CVE-2021-27219: g_memdup takes a guint as parameter and sometimes leads into an integer overflow, so add a g_memdup2 function which uses gsize to replace it. (bsc#1182362) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9: zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-9-2021-801=1 - SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8: zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-8-2021-801=1 - SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9:

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References

#1182328 #1182362

Cross- CVE-2021-27218 CVE-2021-27219

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-27218 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2021-27218 (SUSE): 5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVE-2021-27219 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2021-27219 (SUSE): 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9

SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP5

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Ser...

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:0801-1
Rating: important

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security advisory software update integer overflow threat mitigation SUSE Linux glib2 openstack

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