Out-of-bounds Read Affecting bsdtar package, versions <3.3.2-3.3.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-BSDTAR-2759264
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed30 Oct 2018

Introduced: 30 Oct 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 bsdtar to version 3.3.2-3.3.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bsdtar package and not the bsdtar package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 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.