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CVE-2017-15670
critical
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.
References
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22320
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1879