Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libarchive-devel 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
1.85% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBARCHIVEDEVEL-2759537
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed30 Oct 2018

Introduced: 30 Oct 2018

CVE-2017-14501  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libarchive-devel to version 3.3.2-3.3.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libarchive-devel package and not the libarchive-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

An out-of-bounds read flaw exists in parse_file_info in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c in libarchive 3.3.2 when extracting a specially crafted iso9660 iso file, related to archive_read_format_iso9660_read_header.