Bug 1417912 (CVE-2017-5601) - CVE-2017-5601 libarchive: Out of bounds read in lha_read_file_header_1() function
Summary: CVE-2017-5601 libarchive: Out of bounds read in lha_read_file_header_1() func...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-5601
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1417917 1417918 1417919 1417920 1417921 1417922
Blocks: 1417916
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Reported: 2017-01-31 12:16 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:41 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libarchive 3.3.0
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Last Closed: 2017-02-01 05:37:31 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-01-31 12:16:36 UTC
A vulnerability was found in libarchive. There exists an out of bounds read in function lha_read_file_header_1(). A maliciously crafted file could cause the application to crash.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/98dcbbf0bf4854bf987557e55e55fff7abbf3ea9

References:

https://secunia.com/secunia_research/2017-3/

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-01-31 12:23:52 UTC
Created libarchive tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-5 [bug 1417919]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1417917]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1417920]


Created mingw-libarchive tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1417918]


Created python-libarchive tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1417922]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1417921]

Comment 3 Doran Moppert 2017-02-01 05:37:43 UTC
Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security
impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future
updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity
Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification.


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