VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2021-27218
An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.7 and 2.67.x before 2.67.4.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 4.08%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.08%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.7 and 2.67.x before 2.67.4. 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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 4.08% probability · 90th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-681
- Affected
- gnome/glib · fedoraproject/fedora · netapp/active iq unified manager · netapp/cloud backup · netapp/e-series performance analyzer · broadcom/brocade fabric operating system firmware · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/1942Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/1944Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00006.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2REA7RVKN7ZHRLJOEGBRQKJIPZQPAELZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JJMPNDO4GDVURYQFYKFOWY5HAF4FTEPN/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-13Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210319-0004/Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/1942Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/1944Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00006.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2REA7RVKN7ZHRLJOEGBRQKJIPZQPAELZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JJMPNDO4GDVURYQFYKFOWY5HAF4FTEPN/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-13Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210319-0004/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.