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Bug 1504804 - (CVE-2017-15670) CVE-2017-15670 glibc: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE
CVE-2017-15670 glibc: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20171019,repor...
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Depends On: 1504807 1504809 1504810
Blocks: 1504815
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Reported: 2017-10-20 12:47 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2018-06-24 18:52 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version: glibc 2.27
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Tracker ID Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Sourceware 22320 None None None 2017-10-20 12:59 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0805 None None None 2018-04-10 04:21 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:1879 None None None 2018-06-19 00:49 EDT

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-20 12:47:35 EDT
A buffer overflow vulnerability caused by an off-by-one error was found in glibc. It is possible that an attacker might use this to escalate his privileges or execute code.

Upstream patch:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=2d1bd71ec70a31b01d01b734faa66bb1ed28961f

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22320
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-20 12:55:10 EDT
Created glibc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1504807]
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 04:21:22 EDT
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:0805 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0805
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2018-06-19 00:49:48 EDT
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:1879 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1879

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