High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 17, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-14502
CVE-2017-14502
Description
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.
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Affected products
28cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:3.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:3.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <3.3.2
- osv-coords26 versionspkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%206pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Development%20Tools%2015pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.0pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Retail%20Branch%20Server%204.0pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.0
< 3.3.3-3.14.1+ 25 more
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.2-26.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.2-26.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.2-3.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.2-3.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.2-26.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.2-26.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.2-26.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.2-26.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.2-26.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.2-26.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.2-26.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.2-26.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.2-26.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.3-3.14.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
7- bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detailnvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- bugs.debian.org/875974nvdIssue TrackingMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.htmlnvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11nvd
- usn.ubuntu.com/3859-1/nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360nvd
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