vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2025-5917: libarchive -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 9, 2025
Added
Jun 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 13, 2025

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.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-libarchiveno-fix-debian-deb-package
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