CVE-2025-25724 (GCVE-0-2025-25724)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-02 00:00
Modified
2025-03-04 19:00
Severity ?
4.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE
Summary
list_item_verbose in tar/util.c in libarchive through 3.7.7 does not check an strftime return value, which can lead to a denial of service or unspecified other impact via a crafted TAR archive that is read with a verbose value of 2. For example, the 100-byte buffer may not be sufficient for a custom locale.
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libarchive libarchive Version: 0   ≤ 3.7.7
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