Security Advisory

CVE-2016-1234

7.5
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the glob implementation in GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.24, when GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC is used, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long name.
Published Date June 1, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory