Bug 1489852 (CVE-2017-14166) - CVE-2017-14166 libarchive: Heap-based buffer over-read in the atol8 function
Summary: CVE-2017-14166 libarchive: Heap-based buffer over-read in the atol8 function
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-14166
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1449531 1698494 1827927
Blocks: 1856620
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Reported: 2017-09-08 13:27 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2023-03-21 18:36 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: libarchive 3.3.3
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Last Closed: 2021-10-21 11:57:02 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-08 13:27:03 UTC 
libarchive 3.3.2 allows 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.

Upstream patch:

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

References:

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchive-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-xml_data-archive_read_support_format_xar-c/
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-08 13:28:10 UTC 
Created libarchive tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1449531]
Comment 2 Pavel Raiskup 2018-06-01 10:08:04 UTC 
Waits for release:
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/935
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