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Ubuntu: USN-3736-1 (CVE-2017-14166): libarchive vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3736-1 (CVE-2017-14166): libarchive vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/06/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
08/15/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libarchive13

References

  • USN-3736-1
  • DSA-4360
  • CVE-2017-14166

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