Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libarchive-debuginfo package, versions <0:3.1.2-12.12.amzn1
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- published27 Sept 2021
- disclosed17 Sept 2017
Introduced: 17 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-14503 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 libarchive-debuginfo to version 0:3.1.2-12.12.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2019-1308.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libarchive-debuginfo package and not the libarchive-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.
libarchive 3.3.2 suffers from an out-of-bounds read within lha_read_data_none() in archive_read_support_format_lha.c when extracting a specially crafted lha archive, related to lha_crc16.
References
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14503
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11
- https://bugs.debian.org/875960
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/948
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2298
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3698
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3736-1/