CVE-2017-14166
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14166
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14166.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-14166
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2017-09-06T18:29:00.273Z
- Modified
- 2026-03-03T01:03:11.675961Z
- Severity
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- 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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libarchive 3.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (xmldata heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted xar archive, related to the mishandling of empty strings in the atol8 function in archivereadsupportformat_xar.c.
- References
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- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchive-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-xml_data-archive_read_support_format_xar-c/
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3736-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchive-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-xml_data-archive_read_support_format_xar-c/
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html
Affected packages
Git / github.com/libarchive/libarchive
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affected