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authorAndreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>2020-02-19 17:21:46 +0100
committerTulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>2020-03-20 15:23:11 -0300
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Fix use-after-free in glob when expanding ~user (bug 25414)
The value of `end_name' points into the value of `dirname', thus don't
deallocate the latter before the last use of the former.

(cherry picked from commit ddc650e9b3dc916eab417ce9f79e67337b05035c)
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@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ The following bugs are resolved with this release:
   [25204] Ignore LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC for SUID programs
   [25225] ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-protection
   [25232] No const correctness for strchr et al. for Clang++
+  [25414] 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
   [25423] Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
 
 Security related changes:
@@ -109,6 +110,9 @@ Security related changes:
   addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
   program.  Reported by Marcin Koƛcielnicki.
 
+  CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
+  expanding ~user has been fixed.
+
 
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