CVE-2017-5601

An error in the lhareadfileheader1() function (archivereadsupportformatlha.c) in libarchive 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to trigger an out-of-bounds read memory access and subsequently cause a crash via a specially crafted archive.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Events

Introduced

629358182b04d7de2316bbd29708c58ddf797fd2

Last affected

629358182b04d7de2316bbd29708c58ddf797fd2

Fixed

98dcbbf0bf4854bf987557e55e55fff7abbf3ea9

Database specific

{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:3.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.2.2"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.2.2"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_STRING",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

3.*

3.2.2

v3.*

v3.2.2

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "336704226165769747464089933487872960037",
            "length": 1651.0
        },
        "target": {
            "function": "lha_read_file_header_1",
            "file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_lha.c"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-5601-0c9a258d",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/98dcbbf0bf4854bf987557e55e55fff7abbf3ea9",
        "deprecated": false
    },
    {
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "154933373695779527317611311915132494466",
                "42771799760974896591912558998750698051",
                "84107349244644041201078345399127083101"
            ]
        },
        "target": {
            "file": "libarchive/archive_read_support_format_lha.c"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-5601-864d99df",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "source": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/98dcbbf0bf4854bf987557e55e55fff7abbf3ea9",
        "deprecated": false
    }
]

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5601.json"

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-07-08T12:27:56Z"