cve/2017/CVE-2017-15670.md

### [CVE-2017-15670](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15670)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
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#### Github
- https://github.com/flyrev/security-scan-ci-presentation