fkie_cve-2025-5917
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-06-09 20:15
Modified
2025-08-15 18:16
Severity ?
2.8 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
5.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library. This flaw involves an 'off-by-one' miscalculation when handling prefixes and suffixes for file names. This can lead to a 1-byte write overflow. While seemingly small, such an overflow can corrupt adjacent memory, leading to unpredictable program behavior, crashes, or in specific circumstances, could be leveraged as a building block for more sophisticated exploitation.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5917Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370874Issue Tracking
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2588Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.8.0Release Notes
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
libarchive libarchive *
redhat openshift_container_platform 4.0
redhat enterprise_linux 6.0
redhat enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0
redhat enterprise_linux 10.0


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