Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libarchive package, versions <3.2.2-3.1ubuntu0.2


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-LIBARCHIVE-328254
  • published17 Sept 2017
  • disclosed17 Sept 2017

Introduced: 17 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14502  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-193  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 libarchive to version 3.2.2-3.1ubuntu0.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libarchive package and not the libarchive package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

read_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.

CVSS Scores

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