CVE-2017-14166 (GCVE-0-2017-14166)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-06 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:20
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchiv… x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/f… x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3736-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2017-09-06 00:00
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