vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-15670

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 20, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

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.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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