From c369d66e5426a30e4725b100d5cd28e372754f90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:41:14 +0200
Subject: CVE-2017-15670: glob: Fix one-byte overflow [BZ #22320]

---
 NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ad680db..e0e5056 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ 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).
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [The release manager will add the list generated by
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