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    CVE-2025-5917

    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.

    Published:May 20, 2025
    Last Modified:Jun 30, 2026
    EPS:Jun 9, 2025
    EPSS Score:0.00165
    CVSS Score:2.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Libarchive
    Product
    Libarchive
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Openshift
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Openshift Container Platform

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