Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libarchive package, versions <3.2.2-2+deb9u1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
2.06% (89th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-LIBARCHIVE-328288
- published 6 Sep 2017
- disclosed 6 Sep 2017
Introduced: 6 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-14166 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
libarchive 3.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (xml_data heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted xar archive, related to the mishandling of empty strings in the atol8 function in archive_read_support_format_xar.c.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14166
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14166
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchive-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-xml_data-archive_read_support_format_xar-c/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-14166
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3736-1/