| Name | CVE-2017-15670 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | ELA-725-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 879501 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| glibc (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.19-18+deb8u14 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.24-11+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.24-11+deb9u7 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.28-10+deb10u4 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.31-13+deb11u11 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2.31-13+deb11u10 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.36-9+deb12u8 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 2.36-9+deb12u7 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.40-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| eglibc | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | low | | |
| glibc | source | experimental | 2.26-0experimental0 | | | |
| glibc | source | jessie | 2.19-18+deb8u11 | | ELA-725-1 | |
| glibc | source | stretch | 2.24-11+deb9u4 | | | |
| glibc | source | (unstable) | 2.25-3 | low | | 879501 |
Notes
[wheezy] - eglibc <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22320
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=c369d66e5426a30e4725b100d5cd28e372754f90 (master)
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=a76376df7c07e577a9515c3faa5dbd50bda5da07 (release/2.26/master)