CVE-2017-14502

libarchive: Off-by-one error in the read_header function

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 16, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-193 · Off-by-one Error