Bug 1494463 (CVE-2017-14502)

Summary: CVE-2017-14502 libarchive: Off-by-one error in the read_header function
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: anto.trande, besser82, databases-maint, mike, odubaj, panovotn, pkubat, praiskup, tomm.momi
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Fixed In Version: libarchive 3.3.3 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On: 1449531, 1698493, 1827927    
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-22 10:10:09 UTC 
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.

References:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=875974

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/5562545b5562f6d12a4ef991fae158bf4ccf92b6
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-22 10:10:53 UTC 
Created libarchive tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1449531]