CVE-2017-14502

Summary

CVECVE-2017-14502
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-09-17 18:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
Descriptionread_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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125 | CWE-193

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libarchive Libarchive 3.3.2 All All All
Application Libarchive Libarchive 3.3.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
libarchive: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201908-11) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4360-1 libarchive DEBIAN www.debian.org
Issue 573 - oss-fuzz - OSS-Fuzz: Fuzzing the planet - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
USN-3859-1: libarchive vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Avoid a read off-by-one error for UTF16 names in RAR archives. · libarchive/libarchive@5562545 · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1600-1] libarchive security update MLIST lists.debian.org
#875974 - libarchive: CVE-2017-14502: out-of-bounds read in archive_read_format_rar_read_header() - Debian Bug report logs MISC bugs.debian.org Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710149 Gentoo Linux libarchive Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201908-11)
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