CVE-2017-7476

Critical

Published: 02/05/2017(UTC)Translated: 14/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

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.

Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to unauthorized memory access, potentially resulting in data leakage or remote code execution.

It is recommended to update Gnulib to a version after 2017-04-26 to mitigate this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

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.