CVE-2017-14502

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    CVE-2017-14502

    Published: 17 Sept 2017Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3859-1/, https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11, https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=573, https://bugs.debian.org/875974

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 98a695399e8e7420635a5448aecde8b0a82fb83a
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.3.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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