Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libarchive package, versions <0:3.1.2-12.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-LIBARCHIVE-2540553
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed17 Sept 2017

Introduced: 17 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14503  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 libarchive to version 0:3.1.2-12.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2019-2298.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libarchive package and not the libarchive package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 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.