Vulnerabilities / CVE-2017-15670

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CVE-2017-15670

glibc: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE

Published Modified CWE 119
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat7.0CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Photon OS. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Amazon (medium), Oracle (medium), Ubuntu (low).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 1.0glibc2.22-15.ph1
Photon OS 2.0glibc2.26-6.ph2
amazon linux 1glibc, glibc-common, glibc-debuginfo and 6 more2.17-222.173.amzn1
amazon linux 2glibc, glibc-all-langpacks, glibc-benchtests and 198 more2.26-28.amzn2.0.1
debian 11glibc2.25-3
debian 12glibc2.25-3
debian 13glibc2.25-3
debian 14glibc2.25-3
debian 7eglibcno fix listed
debian 9glibc2.24-11+deb9u4
echoglibc2.25-3
Oracle Linux 6glibc, glibc-common, glibc-devel and 4 more2.12-1.212.0.1.el6
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Photon OS 2.0glibc2.26-6.ph2
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debian 11glibc2.25-3
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Red Hatcompat-glibcno fix listed
Red Hatcompat-glibc-headersno fix listed
root.io debian 11rootio-glibc2.25-3
root.io debian 12rootio-glibc2.25-3
root.io debian 13rootio-glibc2.25-3
seal Red Hat 6glibc2.12-1.212.el6_10.3+sp999
seal Red Hat 6seal-glibc2.12-1.212.el6_10.3+sp999
ubuntu 14.04eglibc2.19-0ubuntu6.14
ubuntu 14.04-ESMeglibc2.19-0ubuntu6.14
ubuntu 16.04glibc2.23-0ubuntu10
ubuntu 16.04-ESMglibc2.23-0ubuntu10
ubuntu 17.10glibc2.26-0ubuntu2.1

References

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