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CVE-2017-15670

glibc: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7

CVSS 3.0

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Published · October 19, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

The GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27 contains an off-by-one error leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the glob function in glob.c, related to the processing of home directories using the ~ operator followed by a long string.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow