Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libarchive package, versions [0,3.3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.63% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBARCHIVE-2318958
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed27 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jan 2017

CVE-2017-5601  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libarchive to version 3.3.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. An error in the lha_read_file_header_1() function (archive_read_support_format_lha.c) in libarchive 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to trigger an out-of-bounds read memory access and subsequently cause a crash via a specially crafted archive.

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