CVE-2017-15670 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Glibc
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 55.60%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 20
Latest updateMay 14
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9