CVE-2017-14502 — Out-of-bounds Read in Libarchive

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds ReadCWE-193 — Off-by-one Error9 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.2%
top 21.09%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
LibarchiveDebian Libarchive
Timeline
PublishedSep 17
Latest updateMay 13

Description

read_header in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive 3.3.2 suffers from an off-by-one error for UTF-16 names in RAR archives, leading to an out-of-bounds read in archive_read_format_rar_read_header.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/libarchive< libarchive 3.2.2-4.1 (bookworm)
▶Debianlibarchive/libarchive< 3.2.2-4.1+3
▶Ubuntulibarchive/libarchive< 3.1.2-7ubuntu2.7+2

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-w2pg-4hrq-9q8x: read_header in archive_read_support_format_rar↗2022-05-13
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OSV
libarchive vulnerabilities↗2019-01-15
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OSV
CVE-2017-14502: read_header in archive_read_support_format_rar↗2017-09-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
libarchive vulnerabilities↗2019-01-15
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Red Hat
libarchive: Off-by-one error in the read_header function↗2017-09-16
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Debian
CVE-2017-14502: libarchive - read_header in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive 3.3.2 suffers fro...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-14502 libarchive: Off-by-one error in the read_header function↗2017-09-22
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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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