CVE-2017-14503

Published: 17 September 2017

libarchive 3.3.2 suffers from an out-of-bounds read within lha_read_data_none() in archive_read_support_format_lha.c when extracting a specially crafted lha archive, related to lha_crc16.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 6.5

Status

Package	Release	Status
libarchive Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage



	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Released (3.2.2-3.1ubuntu0.1)
	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)	Released (3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.4)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Released (3.1.2-7ubuntu2.6)
	Patches: Upstream: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/2c8c83b9731ff822fad6cc8c670ea5519c366a14

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14503
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3736-1
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/948
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=875960

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