CVE-2017-14502

HIGH

libarchive 3.3.2 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0120
EPSS Percentile 79.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125 CWE-193
Status published
Products (1)
libarchive/libarchive 3.3.2
Published Sep 17, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026