CVE-2017-14166
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
Description
RHEA-2021:1580: libarchive bug fix and enhancement update (Moderate)
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 16.04 | Affected | — |
| 14.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 7 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 3.2.2-3.1 |
| sid | Fixed | 3.2.2-3.1 |
| forky | Fixed | 3.2.2-3.1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 3.2.2-3.1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 3.2.2-3.1 |
| 9.0 | Affected | — |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
Red Hat Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Fixed | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| libarchive | libarchive | 3.3.2 | |
References
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/libarchive-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-xml_data-archive_read_support_format_xar-c/
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/fa7438a0ff4033e4741c807394a9af6207940d71
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-11
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3736-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4360
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14166.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14166
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2021:1580
CWEs
CWE-125
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.