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CVE-2017-14502

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

read_header in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive 3.3.2 suffers from an off-by-one error for UTF-16 names in RAR archives, leading to an out-of-bounds read in archive_read_format_rar_read_header.

Affected products

• libarchive: 3.3.2

References

• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=573
• https://bugs.debian.org/875974
• https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3859-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=573
• https://bugs.debian.org/875974
• https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11

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