Security Advisory

CVE-2017-15670

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-10-20 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 19:57:27
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.