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CVE-2017-14502

high

Description

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.

References

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6

https://bugs.debian.org/875974

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=573

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3859-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-09-17

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00678