Bug 1445185 (CVE-2017-7476)

Summary: CVE-2017-7476 gnulib: Out-of-bounds write by setting a large TZ variable
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: admiller, jamartis, kdudka, kzak, ooprala, ovasik, p, security-response-team, twaugh
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-04-25 08:29:13 UTC
An out-of-bounds heap write vulnerability was found in date. Maliciously crafted TZ variable could be used to run arbitrary code as the user running date.

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-25 08:33:14 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: Pádraig Brady

Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2017-04-27 08:09:24 UTC
As the fix is already pushed to public git repositories, could the embargo be canceled and the corresponding bugs made public?

Thanks in advance!

Comment 3 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-27 08:25:18 UTC
Upstream patch:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=94e01571

Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2017-04-27 08:29:21 UTC
This really is a gnulib issue, and gnulib is embedded in coreutils.