CVE-2017-14502
N/A
Published: September 17, 2017 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:06 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLibarchive
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (7)
x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=573x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.debian.org/875974x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125CWE-193
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