vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-7601-1 (CVE-2025-5917): libarchive vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jun 9, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | Aug 18, 2025 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 9, 2025
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Aug 18, 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
ubuntu-upgrade-libarchive13ubuntu-upgrade-libarchive13t64
References
- CVE-2025-5917
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2025-5917
- CWE-787
- UBUNTU-USN-7601-1
- URL-https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5917
- URL-https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370874
- URL-https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2588
- URL-https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.8.0
- URL-https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7601-1
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5917
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