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CVE-2017-15671

glibc: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · October 20, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

The glob function in glob.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE, could skip freeing allocated memory when processing the ~ operator with a long user name, potentially leading to a denial of service (memory leak).

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption