CVE-2017-14166

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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3736-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3