CVE-2017-15804

La función glob en glob.c en la biblioteca GNU C (también llamada glibc o libc6) en versiones anteriores a la 2.27 contiene un desbordamiento de búfer durante la eliminación del escape de nombres de usuario con el operador ~.

It was discovered that the GNU C library did not properly handle all of the possible return values from the kernel getcwd syscall. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code in setuid programs and gain administrative privileges. A memory leak was discovered in the _dl_init_paths function in the GNU C library dynamic loader. A local attacker could potentially exploit this with a specially crafted value in the LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable, in combination with CVE-2017-1000409 and another vulnerability on a system with hardlink protections disabled, in order to gain administrative privileges. Various other issues were also addressed.