CVE-2017-14502

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=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
2017-09-17T18:29:00.263Z
Modified
2026-05-07T00:05:16.842440Z
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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:3.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "3.3.2"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
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
Database specific 
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Affected versions

v3.*
v3.0.0a
v3.0.1b
v3.1.900a
v3.2.0
v3.2.1
v3.2.2
v3.3.0
v3.3.1
v3.3.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14502.json"
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-05-07T00:05:16Z"
vanir_signatures 
[
    {
        "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "id": "CVE-2017-14502-43d54606",
        "target": {
            "file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_rar.c"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "13977532947477693712903437864826558758",
                "86887419669346803201298408184209006481",
                "230717690568527551977918927376985026289",
                "85898820602385202674590415434893583601"
            ]
        },
        "signature_type": "Line"
    },
    {
        "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "id": "CVE-2017-14502-bce88207",
        "target": {
            "function": "read_header",
            "file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_rar.c"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "24182816260003273507586254840557177990",
            "length": 9817.0
        },
        "signature_type": "Function"
    }
]