CVE-2017-14502: Libarchive

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

read_header in archive_read_support_format_rar.c in libarchive 3.3.2 suffers from an off-by-one error for UTF-16 names in RAR archives, leading to an out-of-bounds read in archive_read_format_rar_read_header.

Affected products

• Libarchive Libarchive: version 3.3.2 only

Published 2017-09-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.