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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2017-10-20 18:41:14 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2017-10-20 18:46:48 +0200
commitc369d66e5426a30e4725b100d5cd28e372754f90 (patch)
tree252d4ee0e4196f335fc864d10a38f5c6cb6c36f3 /NEWS
parent6d43de4b85b11d26a19bebe4f55f31be16e3d419 (diff)
CVE-2017-15670: glob: Fix one-byte overflow [BZ #22320]
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@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ Security related changes:
vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
script.)
+ CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE, suffered
+ from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either on the stack
+ or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
+
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
[The release manager will add the list generated by