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CVE-2026-6791 Potential stack-based buffer clash during tilde expansion in wordexp

🗓️ 10 Aug 2026 18:41:25Reported by glibcType 
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When expanding paths that begin with a tilde (~) followed by a username, the internal parse_tilde function extracts the username to determine the user's home directory. The implementation allocates memory for this username directly on the stack us...

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[
  {
    "vendor": "The GNU C Library",
    "product": "glibc",
    "platforms": [
      "Linux"
    ],
    "collectionURL": "https://sourceware.org/glibc/",
    "packageName": "glibc",
    "repo": "https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2.0",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "2.43",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]

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