CVE-2017-14503

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Published 2017-09-17 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

libarchive 3.3.2 suffers from an out-of-bounds read within lha_read_data_none() in archive_read_support_format_lha.c when extracting a specially crafted lha archive, related to lha_crc16.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14503

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14503.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed3.2.2-4.1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.2.2-4.1
debian debianforkyfixed3.2.2-4.1
debian debiansidfixed3.2.2-4.1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.2.2-4.1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
libarchivelibarchive3.3.2

References

CWEs

CWE-125

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.