CVE-2017-7476 (GCVE-0-2017-7476)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-02 17:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:04
Severity ?
CWE
  • heap-based buffer overflow
Summary
Gnulib before 2017-04-26 has a heap-based buffer overflow with the TZ environment variable. The error is in the save_abbr function in time_rz.c.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Gnulib before 2017-04-26 Version: Gnulib before 2017-04-26
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