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CVE-2025-5917

A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library.

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LibarchiveLibarchive
before 3.8.0
RedhatOpenshift Container Platform
Version 4.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux
Versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0

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