Low severity2.8OSV Advisory· Published Jun 9, 2025· Updated Jun 30, 2026
CVE-2025-5917
CVE-2025-5917
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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Affected products
29v3.0.0a, v3.0.1b, v3.1.900a, …+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: v3.0.0a, v3.0.1b, v3.1.900a, …
- cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <3.8.0
- (no CPE)range: <3.8.0
- cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 4 more
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- osv-coords20 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/libarchive&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Development%20Tools%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Development%20Tools%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.0pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.1pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%20LTS%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/libarchive&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%20LTS%204.3
< 3.7.2-150600.3.17.1+ 19 more
- (no CPE)range: < 3.7.2-150600.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.7.2-150600.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.7.2-150600.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.7.2-150600.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.7.2-150600.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.6.2-5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.7.4-slfo.1.1_3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-150400.3.21.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2588nvdPatch
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5917nvdVendor Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue Tracking
- github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.8.0nvdRelease Notes
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