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CVE-2017-15670
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-10-20T17:29:00.240 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:08:04.883

Summary

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.

Affected products

gnu — glibc

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