Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Oct 20, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-15671
CVE-2017-15671
Description
The glob function in glob.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE, could skip freeing allocated memory when processing the ~ operator with a long user name, potentially leading to a denial of service (memory leak).
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