K82112489 : GNOME GLib vulnerability CVE-2021-27219

Security Advisory Description

An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.6 and 2.67.x before 2.67.3. The function g_bytes_new has an integer overflow on 64-bit platforms due to an implicit cast from 64 bits to 32 bits. The overflow could potentially lead to memory corruption. (CVE-2021-27219)

Impact

F5 is not aware of any exploitable attack vector for this security advisory. There is a theoretical possibility that this vulnerability may allow an attacker to corrupt memory, leading to a denial-of- service (DoS) or other unknown attack.