Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 20, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-15670
CVE-2017-15670
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.
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