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glibc: Buffer overflow during unescaping of user names with the ~ operator

🗓️ 19 Jun 2018 04:59:39Reported by RedHatType 
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glibc glob function before 2.27 has a buffer overflow when unescaping user names with the tilde operator.

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CVSS 27.5
CVSS 39.8
EPSS0.02824
CWE-122
GNU C librarybuffer overflowunescapinguser namestilde operator
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