High severity · published Sep 17, 2017
CVE-2017-14502
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…
7.5
CVSS
3.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.4% · higher than 89% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Libarchive · Libarchive
3.3.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14502
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14502
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=573
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.debian.org/875974
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11
usn.ubuntu.com
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3859-1/
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