Bug 1504806 (CVE-2017-15671) - CVE-2017-15671 glibc: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE
Summary: CVE-2017-15671 glibc: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-15671
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1504807
Blocks: 1504815
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Reported: 2017-10-20 16:53 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-09-09 12:44 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: glibc 2.27
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Last Closed: 2018-05-17 07:48:03 UTC
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Sourceware 22325 0 None None None 2017-10-20 17:00:23 UTC

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]
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