Off-by-one Error in libarchive 3.3.2: Out-of-bounds Read in RAR Archive Header Parsing

Off-by-one Error in libarchive 3.3.2: Out-of-bounds Read in RAR Archive Header Parsing

CVE-2017-14502 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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