Vulnerabilities > GNU > Glibc > 2.26

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2017-10-20 CVE-2017-15671 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in GNU Glibc
The glob function in glob.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE, could skip freeing allocated memory when processing the ~ operator with a long user name, potentially leading to a denial of service (memory leak).
network
gnu CWE-772
4.3
2017-10-20 CVE-2017-15670 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in GNU Glibc
The GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27 contains an off-by-one error leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the glob function in glob.c, related to the processing of home directories using the ~ operator followed by a long string.
network
low complexity
gnu CWE-119
7.5
2017-03-20 CVE-2015-8985 Data Processing Errors vulnerability in GNU Glibc
The pop_fail_stack function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) via vectors related to extended regular expression processing.
network
gnu CWE-19
4.3