CVE-2025-5917

June 9, 2025, 8:15 p.m.

2.8
Low

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Redhat
  • Libarchive
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-787
Out-of-bounds Write
The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a redhat libarchive / / / / / / / /

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5917
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370874
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2588
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.8.0

Tags

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-787
2025-06-09
CVE-2025-5917

CVSS Score

2.8 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: LOW

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

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Timeline

Published: June 9, 2025, 8:15 p.m.
Last Modified: June 9, 2025, 8:15 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

secalert@redhat.com

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