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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2017-10-20 18:41:14 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2017-10-20 18:46:48 +0200
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CVE-2017-15670: glob: Fix one-byte overflow [BZ #22320]
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@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ Security related changes:
   vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
   script.)
 
+  CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE, suffered
+  from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either on the stack
+  or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [The release manager will add the list generated by