CVE-2021-3800
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-23 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 17:09
Severity ?
Summary
A flaw was found in glib before version 2.63.6. Due to random charset alias, pkexec can leak content from files owned by privileged users to unprivileged ones under the right condition.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3800Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1938284Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/commit/3529bb4450a51995Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0004/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/23/8Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/aGlib
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