<p>Upgrade <code>Centos:8</code> <code>libarchive</code> to version 0:3.3.3-1.el8 or higher.</p>

Off-by-one Error Affecting libarchive package, versions <0:3.3.3-1.el8

Snyk CVSS

Attack Complexity Low

Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS 0.68% (80^th percentile)

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Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-LIBARCHIVE-1978086
published 26 Jul 2021
disclosed 16 Sep 2017

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Introduced: 16 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14502 Open this link in a new tab CWE-193 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:8 libarchive to version 0:3.3.3-1.el8 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 Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 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.