CVE-2017-15670
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2018-07-30 | |
| Impact: | None | What is this? |
Description
The GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27 contains anoff-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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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 7.5 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (glibc) | ELSA-2018-1879 | 2018-06-25 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (glibc) | ELSA-2018-0805 | 2018-04-16 |
| Oracle VM version 3.3 (glibc) | OVMSA-2018-0235 | 2018-06-29 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (glibc) | OVMSA-2018-0235 | 2018-06-29 |
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