CVE-2017-15804

The glob function in glob.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27 contains a buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-10-22

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Glibc (Gnu)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101535
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0805
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1879
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22332
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a159b53fa059947cc2548e3b0d5bdcf7b9630ba8