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.
References
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5917 | Vendor Advisory |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370874 | Issue Tracking |
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2588 | Patch |
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.8.0 | Release Notes |
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History
15 Aug 2025, 18:16
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Redhat openshift Container Platform
Redhat enterprise Linux Libarchive Redhat Libarchive libarchive |
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References | () https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5917 - Vendor Advisory | |
References | () https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370874 - Issue Tracking | |
References | () https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2588 - Patch | |
References | () https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.8.0 - Release Notes | |
CPE | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
12 Jun 2025, 16:06
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09 Jun 2025, 20:15
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Information
Published : 2025-06-09 20:15
Updated : 2025-08-15 18:16
NVD link : CVE-2025-5917
Mitre link : CVE-2025-5917
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-5917
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Products Affected
redhat
- openshift_container_platform
- enterprise_linux
libarchive
- libarchive
CWE
CWE-787
Out-of-bounds Write