Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1412-03 - An update for gmp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include buffer overflow and integer overflow vulnerabilities.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: gmp update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:1412-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1412
Issue date: 2024-03-19
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2021-43618
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Summary:
An update for gmp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended
Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.
Description:
The gmp packages contain GNU MP, a library for arbitrary precision arithmetics, signed integers operations, rational numbers, and floating point numbers.
Security Fix(es):
* gmp: Integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow via crafted input
(CVE-2021-43618)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2021-43618
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024904