vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2025-25724: Unchecked Return Value

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 2, 2025
Added
Aug 8, 2025
Modified
Dec 22, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libarchive
Title
NEW

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