CVE-2017-14502

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Events

Introduced

98a695399e8e7420635a5448aecde8b0a82fb83a

Last affected

98a695399e8e7420635a5448aecde8b0a82fb83a

Fixed

5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6

Database specific

{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:3.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": [
        "CPE_STRING",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.3.2"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.3.2"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

3.*

3.3.2

v3.*

v3.3.2

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "13977532947477693712903437864826558758",
                "86887419669346803201298408184209006481",
                "230717690568527551977918927376985026289",
                "85898820602385202674590415434893583601"
            ]
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "target": {
            "file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_rar.c"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-14502-43d54606",
        "deprecated": false
    },
    {
        "digest": {
            "length": 9817.0,
            "function_hash": "24182816260003273507586254840557177990"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "target": {
            "function": "read_header",
            "file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_rar.c"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-14502-bce88207",
        "deprecated": false
    }
]

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-07-08T10:54:41Z"

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14502.json"