CVE-2017-14502
HIGHlibarchive 3.3.2 - Out-of-bounds Read in RAR Archive UTF-16 Name Handling
Title source: llmDescription
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 (7)
Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3859-1/
Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.debian.org/875974
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=573
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0337
EPSS Percentile
87.1%
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