CVE-2017-14166 (GCVE-0-2017-14166)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-09-06 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 19:20
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
libarchive 3.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (xml_data 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 archive_read_support_format_xar.c.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchive-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-xml_data-archive_read_support_format_xar-c/Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3736-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchive-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-xml_data-archive_read_support_format_xar-c/Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3736-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360Third Party Advisory
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