Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions <2.23-0ubuntu10
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.33% (71st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-GLIBC-356490
- published 22 Oct 2017
- disclosed 22 Oct 2017
Introduced: 22 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-15804 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04
glibc
to version 2.23-0ubuntu10 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc
package and not the glibc
package as distributed by Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:16.04
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-15804
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22332
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=a159b53fa059947cc2548e3b0d5bdcf7b9630ba8
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15804
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0805
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1879
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101535
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a159b53fa059947cc2548e3b0d5bdcf7b9630ba8