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Alpine Linux: CVE-2025-1632: NULL Pointer Dereference

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 24, 2025
Added
Aug 8, 2025
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in libarchive up to 3.7.7. It has been classified as problematic. This affects the function list of the file bsdunzip.c. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libarchive
Title
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