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CVE-2025-5917 Details

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.

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5917 [email protected]Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370874 [email protected]Issue Tracking
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2588 [email protected]Patch
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.8.0 [email protected]Release Notes

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-787Out-of-bounds Write[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
libarchive libarchive
< 3.8.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
redhat openshift container platform
4.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
redhat enterprise linux
6.0
7.0
8.0
9.0
10.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-5917
NVD Published Date:
Jun 9, 2025
NVD Last Modified:
Sep 1, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2025-5917 Details - Not Deferred