CVE-2017-5601

An error in the lhareadfileheader1() function (archivereadsupportformatlha.c) in libarchive 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to trigger an out-of-bounds read memory access and subsequently cause a crash via a specially crafted archive.

Database specific

{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "3.2.2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "3.2.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "libarchive:libarchive",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:3.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Events

Introduced

Fixed

98dcbbf0bf4854bf987557e55e55fff7abbf3ea9

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

Database specific

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-08-03T14:23:48Z"

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5601.json"

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "target": {
            "file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_lha.c",
            "function": "lha_read_file_header_1"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "id": "CVE-2017-5601-0c9a258d",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/98dcbbf0bf4854bf987557e55e55fff7abbf3ea9",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "digest": {
            "length": 1651.0,
            "function_hash": "336704226165769747464089933487872960037"
        }
    },
    {
        "target": {
            "file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_lha.c"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "id": "CVE-2017-5601-864d99df",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/98dcbbf0bf4854bf987557e55e55fff7abbf3ea9",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "154933373695779527317611311915132494466",
                "42771799760974896591912558998750698051",
                "84107349244644041201078345399127083101"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        }
    }
]