Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-95492.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-95492
Upstream
Published
2026-08-10T19:17:30Z
Modified
2026-08-30T05:26:50Z
Summary
CVE-2026-6791 affecting package glibc 2.38-20
Details

When expanding paths that begin with a tilde (~) followed by a username, the internal parse_tilde function extracts the username to determine the user's home directory. The implementation allocates memory for this username directly on the stack using the strndupa macro. Because the size of this allocation was determined by the length of the user-supplied input without any bounds checks, passing an excessively long username e.g. thousands of characters, forces the thread to exhaust its stack space. Thus if an application passes untrusted, attacker-controlled input to the wordexp function, an attacker can trigger a stack clash.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / glibc

Package

Name
glibc
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/glibc

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last affected
2.38-20

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-95492.json"