Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting glibc package, versions <2.24-11+deb9u4
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.1% (40th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-GLIBC-356647
- published 20 Oct 2017
- disclosed 20 Oct 2017
Introduced: 20 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-15671 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
glibc
to version 2.24-11+deb9u4 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 Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
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).