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CVE-2025-5917

LOW

2.8

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score2.8

SeverityLOW

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionREQUIRED

Published6/9/2025

Last Modified12/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

libarchive:libarchiveredhat:enterprise_linuxredhat:openshift_container_platform

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-787

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5917(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370874(secalert@redhat.com)

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2588(secalert@redhat.com)

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.8.0(secalert@redhat.com)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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