{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2017-15671", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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)." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22325", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22325" }, { "name": "101517", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101517" } ] } }