Bug 1445185 (CVE-2017-7476) - CVE-2017-7476 gnulib: Out-of-bounds write by setting a large TZ variable
Summary: CVE-2017-7476 gnulib: Out-of-bounds write by setting a large TZ variable
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2017-7476
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1444774
Blocks: 1445186
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Reported: 2017-04-25 08:29 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-05-02 19:35:48 UTC
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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.
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