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CVE-2021-27218: gbytearray: Do not accept too large byte arrays

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Merged Krzesimir Nowak requested to merge krnowak/glib:byte-array-take into master Feb 10, 2021
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GByteArray uses guint for storing the length of the byte array, but it also has a constructor (g_byte_array_new_take) that takes length as a gsize. gsize may be larger than guint (64 bits for gsize vs 32 bits for guint). It is possible to call the function with a value greater than G_MAXUINT, which will result in silent length truncation. This may happen as a result of unreffing GBytes into GByteArray, so rather be loud about it.

Edited Feb 15, 2021 by Simon McVittie
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Source branch: byte-array-take