CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-14166
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-09-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• libarchive libarchive 3.3.2
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchive-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-xml_data-archive_read_support_format_xar-c/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3736-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360 Third Party Advisory
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchive-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-xml_data-archive_read_support_format_xar-c/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3736-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360 Third Party Advisory