CVE-2017-14166
First published: Wed Sep 06 2017(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| ubuntu/libarchive | <3.1.2-7ubuntu2.6 | 3.1.2-7ubuntu2.6 |
| ubuntu/libarchive | <3.2.2-3.1 | 3.2.2-3.1 |
| ubuntu/libarchive | <3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.4 | 3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.4 |
| debian/libarchive | 3.4.3-2+deb11u1 3.6.2-1+deb12u1 3.7.4-1 | |
| libarchive | =3.3.2 | |
| Debian | =8.0 | |
| Debian | =9.0 | |
| Ubuntu | =14.04 | |
| Ubuntu | =16.04 |
Never miss a vulnerability like this again
Sign up to SecAlerts for real-time vulnerability data matched to your software, aggregated from hundreds of sources.
Reference Links
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchive-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-xml_data-archive_read_support_format_xar-c/
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3736-1/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2017-14166
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/09/06/5
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/935
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14166
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/09/06/5
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3736-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14166
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14166
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14166
- agent/type
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/remedy
- agent/severity
- agent/weakness
- agent/description
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- agent/last-modified-date
- collector/usn-cve
- source/Ubuntu
- agent/software-canonical-lookup
- agent/references
- collector/launchpad-cve
- source/Launchpad
- agent/event
- collector/security-tracker-debian
- source/Debian
- agent/trending
- agent/source
- agent/author
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/tags
- collector/nvd-cve
- source/NVD
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- collector/nvd-index
- package-manager/ubuntu
- package-manager/debian
- vendor/libarchive
- canonical/libarchive
- version/libarchive/3.3.2
- vendor/debian
- canonical/debian
- version/debian/8.0
- version/debian/9.0
- vendor/canonical
- canonical/ubuntu
- version/ubuntu/14.04
- version/ubuntu/16.04