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.
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.
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/119 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22320 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1504804 https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=a76376df7c07e577a9515c3faa5dbd50bda5da07 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=2d1bd71ec70a31b01d01b734faa66bb1ed28961f
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