Advisories » MGASA-2021-0362

Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 20 Jul 2021
Modification date: 20 Jul 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-35942

Description

An integer overflow flaw was found in glibc that may result in reading
of arbitrary memory when wordexp is used with a specially crafted
untrusted regular expression input (CVE-2021-35942).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29259
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/ZT2QUZQYD5FTXCEAQNWHUQN72QRNZNYI/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-35942

SRPMS

8/core

• glibc-2.32-17.mga8