Ubuntu: USN-3534-1 (CVE-2017-15804): GNU C Library vulnerabilities
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
10/22/2017
07/25/2018
01/18/2018
03/25/2022
Description
The glob function in glob.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27 contains a buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-libc6
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