CVE-2017-7476
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 3.7% (pctl 89)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 3.65% — more likely to be exploited than 89% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-119 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2017-05-02 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| gnulib | gnulib |
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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