Bug 1504806 (CVE-2017-15671)

Summary: CVE-2017-15671 glibc: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: aoliva, arjun.is, ashankar, codonell, dj, fweimer, glibc-bugzilla, jakub, law, mbliss, mfabian, mnewsome, pfrankli, sardella, scorneli, security-response-team, siddhesh, slawomir, yozone
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Bug Depends On: 1504807    
Bug Blocks: 1504815    

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-20 16:53:26 UTC 
A memory leak was found in glibc. An attacker might use this to cause a denial-of-service (heap exhaustion).

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22325
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-20 16:55:23 UTC 
Created glibc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1504807]