CVE-2017-5601

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5601
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5601.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-5601
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-01-27T22:59:08.413Z
Modified
2025-11-20T10:41:04.037841Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
98dcbbf0bf4854bf987557e55e55fff7abbf3ea9

Affected versions

v2.*

v2.6.0
v2.6.1
v2.6.2
v2.7.0
v2.7.1
v2.8.0
v2.8.1
v2.8.2
v2.8.3
v2.8.4
v2.8.5

v3.*

v3.0.0a
v3.0.1b
v3.0.2
v3.0.3
v3.0.4
v3.1.0
v3.1.1
v3.1.2
v3.1.900a
v3.1.901a
v3.2.0
v3.2.1
v3.2.2

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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