RHBA-2019:1313 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for glib2 and accountsservice is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support.

Description

GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. It provides the core object system used in GNOME, the main loop implementation, and a large set of utility functions for strings and common data structures.

The accountsservice project provides a set of D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information. It is based on the useradd, usermod, and userdel commands.

Bug Fix(es):

• possible memory leak in Gnome (BZ#1669048)
• possible memory leak in Gnome (BZ#1709189)

Users of glib2 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1669048 - possible memory leak in Gnome [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1709189 - possible memory leak in Gnome [rhel-7.5.z]

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)