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CVE-2017-15804

glibc: Buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · October 21, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow