CVE-2025-5917
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.01
BB Relevance:
25/100
Published: 2025-06-09
Modified: 2026-11-06
First seen: 2026-11-06
Status: active
Attack Surface
Low Complexity
CVSS Vector Breakdown
AV:
Local
AC:
Low
PR:
Low
UI:
Required
S:
Unchanged
C:
None
I:
None
A:
High
Description
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. This bug affects libarchive versions prior to 3.8.0.
Weakness Classification (1)
Affected Software (8)
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| — | — | 0 < 3.8.0 |
| libarchive | libarchive | < 3.8.0 |
| 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 |
| redhat | openshift_container_platform | 4.0 |
References & Advisories (4)
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