Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions <0:2.26-28.amzn2.0.1
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- published 27 Sep 2021
- disclosed 20 Oct 2017
Introduced: 20 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-15670 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2
glibc
to version 0:2.26-28.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2018-1048
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc
package and not the glibc
package as distributed by Amazon-Linux
.
See How to fix?
for Amazon-Linux:2
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.