A use-after-free vulnerability introduced in glibc upstream version 2.14 was found in the way the tilde expansion was carried out. Directory paths containing an initial tilde followed by a valid username were affected by this issue. A local attacker could exploit this flaw by creating a specially crafted path that, when processed by the glob function, would potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. This was fixed in version 2.32.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1752
Reference (s):
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1752
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200511-0005/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25414
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=ddc650e9b3dc916eab417ce9f79e67337b05035c
- GENTOO:GLSA-202101-20