CVE-2017-14502

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14502
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14502.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-14502
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-09-17T18:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-15T08:47:29.264702Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

readheader in archivereadsupportformatrar.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 archivereadformatrarreadheader.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6

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

[
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "deprecated": false,
        "id": "CVE-2017-14502-43d54606",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "target": {
            "file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_rar.c"
        },
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "13977532947477693712903437864826558758",
                "86887419669346803201298408184209006481",
                "230717690568527551977918927376985026289",
                "85898820602385202674590415434893583601"
            ]
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6"
    },
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "deprecated": false,
        "id": "CVE-2017-14502-bce88207",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "target": {
            "function": "read_header",
            "file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_rar.c"
        },
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "24182816260003273507586254840557177990",
            "length": 9817.0
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6"
    }
]