github - ghsa-722w-734r-qg74

ghsa-722w-734r-qg74

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-03-02 03:30

Modified

2025-03-02 03:30

Severity ?

4.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Details

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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  "modified": "2025-03-02T03:30:31Z",
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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

CWE-252 - Unchecked Return Value

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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/Ekkosun/pocs/blob/main/bsdtarbug
	https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/blob/b439d586f53911c84be5e380445a8a259e19114c/tar/util.c#L751-L752
	https://gist.github.com/Ekkosun/a83870ce7f3b7813b9b462a395e8ad92

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	libarchive	libarchive	Version: 0 ≤ 3.7.7

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