CVE-2017-14502

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

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

Show details

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:3.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "3.3.2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "3.3.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "fixed": "5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6"
                }
            ],
            "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

3.*

3.3.2

v3.*

v3.3.2

Database specific

source

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

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "deprecated": false,
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "13977532947477693712903437864826558758",
                "86887419669346803201298408184209006481",
                "230717690568527551977918927376985026289",
                "85898820602385202674590415434893583601"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-14502-43d54606",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6",
        "target": {
            "file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_rar.c"
        }
    },
    {
        "deprecated": false,
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "24182816260003273507586254840557177990",
            "length": 9817
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-14502-bce88207",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6",
        "target": {
            "file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_rar.c",
            "function": "read_header"
        }
    }
]

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-10-20T13:21:10Z"