CVE-2017-14166

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-125

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchive-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-xml_data-archive_read_support_format_xar-c/Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3736-1/Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360Third Party Advisory
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchive-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-xml_data-archive_read_support_format_xar-c/Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3736-1/Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Sep 6, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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