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
0.5% (77th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-LIBARCHIVE-328315
- published 17 Sep 2017
- disclosed 17 Sep 2017
Introduced: 17 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-14503 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 suffers from an out-of-bounds read within lha_read_data_none() in archive_read_support_format_lha.c when extracting a specially crafted lha archive, related to lha_crc16.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14503
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14503
- https://bugs.debian.org/875960
- 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/issues/948
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2298
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3698
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-14503
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3736-1/