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Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libarchive package, versions <3.2.2-2+deb9u1

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.68% (80th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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SUSE
4 medium
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Red Hat
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-LIBARCHIVE-328250
  • published 17 Sep 2017
  • disclosed 17 Sep 2017
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Introduced: 17 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14502 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-125 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-193 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 libarchive to version 3.2.2-2+deb9u1 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 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.