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CVE-2017-7476

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

• Gnulib before 2017-04-26: through 2017-04-25

References

• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=94e01571507835ff59dd8ce2a0b56a4b566965a4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98098
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444774
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1445185
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7476
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=94e01571507835ff59dd8ce2a0b56a4b566965a4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98098
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444774
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1445185
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7476

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