VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-14166

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.77%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-09-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references