CVE-2017-20005

A flaw was found in nginx. When a date exists earlier than the standard epoch, as demonstrated by a file with a modification date in 1969 that causes a negative number to be treated as an unsigned integer, the year field becomes five characters long, larger than is allocated for, leading to a buffer overflow. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

This issue did not affect the versions of nginx as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat Software Collection 3 as they already have the patch applied.

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