RHSA-2023:6661 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: gmp security and enhancement update
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 7, 2023
Updated · October 14, 2026
Topic
An update for gmp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.