@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2018-09-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ Fix tzfile low-memory assertion failure
+ [BZ #21716]
+ * time/tzfile.c (__tzfile_read): Check for memory exhaustion
+ when registering time zone abbreviations.
+
2018-09-06 Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com>
* sysdeps/s390/fpu/libm-test-ulps: Regenerated.
@@ -410,7 +410,8 @@ __tzfile_read (const char *file, size_t extra, char **extrap)
/* First "register" all timezone names. */
for (i = 0; i < num_types; ++i)
- (void) __tzstring (&zone_names[types[i].idx]);
+ if (__tzstring (&zone_names[types[i].idx]) == NULL)
+ goto ret_free_transitions;
/* Find the standard and daylight time offsets used by the rule file.
We choose the offsets in the types of each flavor that are