Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libarchive package, versions [0,3.3.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBARCHIVE-2318947
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed17 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

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 libarchive to version 3.3.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read 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.

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