CVE-2017-7476

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2017-7476 · Published 02/05/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-7476 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting gnulib (gnulib).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.7%, higher than 89.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gnulib gnulib	`≤ 2017-04-25`	No fix yet

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.

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