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GNU C Library master sources branch release/2.26/master updated. glibc-2.26-65-ga76376d


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commit a76376df7c07e577a9515c3faa5dbd50bda5da07
Author: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date:   Fri Oct 20 18:41:14 2017 +0200

    CVE-2017-15670: glob: Fix one-byte overflow [BZ #22320]
    
    (cherry picked from commit c369d66e5426a30e4725b100d5cd28e372754f90)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d54d5a8..e05c7fe 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2017-10-20  Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+	[BZ #22320]
+	CVE-2017-15670
+	* posix/glob.c (__glob): Fix one-byte overflow.
+
 2017-09-08  Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
 
 	[BZ #1062]
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ddc950c..80248fe 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ Security related changes:
   vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
   script.)
 
+  CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
+  suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
+  on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
+  Reported by Tim Rühsen.
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [16750] ldd: Never run file directly.
diff --git a/posix/glob.c b/posix/glob.c
index a7eccf9..c761c08 100644
--- a/posix/glob.c
+++ b/posix/glob.c
@@ -870,7 +870,7 @@ glob (const char *pattern, int flags, int (*errfunc) (const char *, int),
 		  *p = '\0';
 		}
 	      else
-		*((char *) mempcpy (newp, dirname + 1, end_name - dirname))
+		*((char *) mempcpy (newp, dirname + 1, end_name - dirname - 1))
 		  = '\0';
 	      user_name = newp;
 	    }

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog    |    6 ++++++
 NEWS         |    5 +++++
 posix/glob.c |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


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