Debian Long Term Support / LTS Security Information / 2019 / Security Information -- DLA-1826-1 glib2.0

Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1826-1 glib2.0 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

18 Jun 2019

Affected Packages:

glib2.0

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 929753.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-12450.

More information:

It was discovered that GLib does not properly restrict some file permissions while a copy operation is in progress; instead, default permissions are used.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 2.42.1-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your glib2.0 packages.

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