Bug 1505298 (CVE-2017-15804) - CVE-2017-15804 glibc: Buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator
Summary: CVE-2017-15804 glibc: Buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with th...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-15804
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1504809 1504810
Blocks: 1504815
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Reported: 2017-10-23 08:58 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: 2019-06-08 03:29:47 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0805 0 None None None 2018-04-10 08:21:55 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:1879 0 None None None 2018-06-19 04:50:08 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-23 08:58:50 UTC 
The glob function in glob.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27 contains a buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22332

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=a159b53fa059947cc2548e3b0d5bdcf7b9630ba8
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 08:21:45 UTC 
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 04:49:58 UTC 
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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