GRADUAL ROLLOUT COMPLETED: GLIB2 PACKAGE WITH THE FIX FOR CVE-2021-28153 AND CVE-2021-27219 WITHIN CentOS 6 ELS - TuxCare

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A new glib2 package with the fix for the CVE-2021-28153 and the CVE-2021-27219 within CentOS 6 extended lifecycle support has been rolled out to 100% and is now available for download from our production repository.

Changelog

glib2-2.28.8-12.el6.cloudlinux.els
  • Fix creating empty target for dangling symlink in g_file_replace() with G_FILE_CREATE_REPLACE_DESTINATION (CVE-2021-28153)
  • Fix integer overflow in g_bytes_new function on 64-bit platforms due to an implicit cast from 64 bits to 32 bits (CVE-2021-27219)

Update command

yum update glib2*

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