Resource Exhaustion Affecting glibc-common package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.1% (41st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-GLIBCCOMMON-1977079
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 20 Oct 2017
Introduced: 20 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-15671 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7
glibc-common
.
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 Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
The glob function in glob.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE, could skip freeing allocated memory when processing the ~ operator with a long user name, potentially leading to a denial of service (memory leak).