CVE-2017-15671
—CVSS 3.0
5.9 medium
EPSS
1%p71
Published
()
Modified
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).
- Vendors
- gnu
- Products
- glibc
- Weakness
- CWE-772
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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