CVE-2017-14166
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14166
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14166.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-14166
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2017-09-06T18:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-10-15T08:46:29.557863Z
- Severity
-
- 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
libarchive 3.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (xmldata 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 archivereadsupportformat_xar.c.
- References
-
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchive-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-xml_data-archive_read_support_format_xar-c/
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3736-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360
Affected packages
Git / github.com/libarchive/libarchive
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
v2.*
v2.6.0
v2.6.1
v2.6.2
v2.7.0
v2.7.1
v2.8.0
v2.8.1
v2.8.2
v2.8.3
v2.8.4
v2.8.5
v3.*
v3.0.0a
v3.0.1b
v3.0.2
v3.0.3
v3.0.4
v3.1.0
v3.1.1
v3.1.2
v3.1.900a
v3.1.901a
v3.2.0
v3.2.1
v3.2.2
v3.3.0
v3.3.1
v3.3.2
Database specific
vanir_signatures
[
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"source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71",
"id": "CVE-2017-14166-8b8c9fe3",
"signature_type": "Function",
"signature_version": "v1",
"deprecated": false,
"target": {
"function": "atol8",
"file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_xar.c"
},
"digest": {
"function_hash": "22896334843526093180736066296199390258",
"length": 252.0
}
},
{
"source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71",
"id": "CVE-2017-14166-d6ce55c2",
"signature_type": "Line",
"signature_version": "v1",
"deprecated": false,
"target": {
"file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_xar.c"
},
"digest": {
"threshold": 0.9,
"line_hashes": [
"306826382494510933660800859828621127375",
"263019307768072499342249514957965856663",
"335663963310048766376761345995812168806",
"99099958808001043042586216301068977286",
"202259133909944234003097793124428872639",
"182001944860290744146342507656516228755"
]
}
},
{
"source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71",
"id": "CVE-2017-14166-efb70994",
"signature_type": "Function",
"signature_version": "v1",
"deprecated": false,
"target": {
"function": "atol10",
"file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_xar.c"
},
"digest": {
"function_hash": "23263452411327199978277794560809399548",
"length": 239.0
}
}
]