CVE-2017-7476 (GCVE-0-2017-7476)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-02 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:04
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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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • heap-based buffer overflow
Assigner
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Gnulib before 2017-04-26 Affected: Gnulib before 2017-04-26
Date Public
2017-05-02 00:00
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