Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mingw32-glib2  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-MINGW32GLIB2-1728463
  • published6 Oct 2021
  • disclosed4 Mar 2021

Introduced: 4 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-3800  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-838  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mingw32-glib2 package and not the mingw32-glib2 package as distributed by RHEL.

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.