PT-2017-17760

CVE-2017-7476

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Published

2017-05-02

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Updated

2025-11-06

Description by

CVSS 3.1
9.8
Critical
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Gnulib versions prior to 2017-04-26
Description The issue is related to a heap-based buffer overflow that occurs with the TZ environment variable. The error is specifically located in the save abbr function within the time rz.c file.
Recommendations For versions prior to 2017-04-26, update to a version released after 2017-04-26 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the TZ environment variable to minimize the risk of exploitation.
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Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2018-3687
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10694-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10735-1
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