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CVE-2017-14166

Published: Sep 6, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchive-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-xml_data-archive_read_support_format_xar-c/

x_refsource_MISC

[debian-lts-announce] 20181129 [SECURITY] [DLA 1600-1] libarchive security update

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71

x_refsource_MISC

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_GENTOO

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