ALAS-2024-1929

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-35457  

GNOME GLib before 2.65.3 has an integer overflow, that might lead to an out-of-bounds write, in g_option_group_add_entries. NOTE: the vendor's position is "Realistically this is not a security issue. The standard pattern is for callers to provide a static list of option entries in a fixed number of calls to g_option_group_add_entries()." The researcher states that this pattern is undocumented (CVE-2020-35457)

ALAS-2024-1929


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-1929
Advisory Release Date: 2024-04-11 01:43 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-04-15 12:00 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

GNOME GLib before 2.65.3 has an integer overflow, that might lead to an out-of-bounds write, in g_option_group_add_entries. NOTE: the vendor's position is "Realistically this is not a security issue. The standard pattern is for callers to provide a static list of option entries in a fixed number of calls to g_option_group_add_entries()." The researcher states that this pattern is undocumented (CVE-2020-35457)


Affected Packages:

glib2


Issue Correction:
Run yum update glib2 to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    glib2-debuginfo-2.36.3-5.27.amzn1.i686
    glib2-fam-2.36.3-5.27.amzn1.i686
    glib2-2.36.3-5.27.amzn1.i686
    glib2-devel-2.36.3-5.27.amzn1.i686

noarch:
    glib2-doc-2.36.3-5.27.amzn1.noarch

src:
    glib2-2.36.3-5.27.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    glib2-debuginfo-2.36.3-5.27.amzn1.x86_64
    glib2-fam-2.36.3-5.27.amzn1.x86_64
    glib2-2.36.3-5.27.amzn1.x86_64
    glib2-devel-2.36.3-5.27.amzn1.x86_64