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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-10-20T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:57:27.535Z

Reserved: 2017-10-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-15670

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-10-20T17:29:00.240

Modified: 2018-06-20T01:29:00.760

Link: CVE-2017-15670

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-15670 - Bugzilla