Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc-common package, versions <0:2.12-1.212.0.1.el6


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE6-GLIBCCOMMON-2523015
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed20 Oct 2017

Introduced: 20 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15670  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:6 glibc-common to version 0:2.12-1.212.0.1.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2018-1879.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-common package and not the glibc-common package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.