CVE-2017-15670

Publication date

2017-10-20 17:00:00

Family

mitre

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.