CVE-2017-14166 — Out-of-bounds Read in Libarchive

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds ReadCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow9 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV5.5
EPSS
1.6%
top 18.29%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
LibarchiveDebian LibarchiveCanonical Ubuntu Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 6
Latest updateMay 14

Description

libarchive 3.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (xml_data heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted xar archive, related to the mishandling of empty strings in the atol8 function in archive_read_support_format_xar.c.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/libarchive< libarchive 3.2.2-3.1 (bookworm)
▶Debianlibarchive/libarchive< 3.2.2-3.1+3
▶Ubuntulibarchive/libarchive< 3.1.2-7ubuntu2.6+2

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04

Patches

Patch: blogs.gentoo.org ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: blogs.gentoo.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-2j9p-6c4h-8967: libarchive 3↗2022-05-14
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OSV
libarchive vulnerabilities↗2018-08-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-14166: libarchive 3↗2017-09-06
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
libarchive vulnerabilities↗2018-08-13
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Red Hat
libarchive: Heap-based buffer over-read in the atol8 function↗2017-09-05
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Debian
CVE-2017-14166: libarchive - libarchive 3.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (xml_data ...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-14166 libarchive: Heap-based buffer over-read in the atol8 function↗2017-09-08
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-10349 CVE-2016-10350 CVE-2017-14166 CVE-2017-14501 CVE-2017-14502 CVE-2017-14503 libarchive: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-05-10
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