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
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Product
Action
Vendor
Libarchive
Product
Libarchive
Libarchive
Libarchive
Vendor
Redhat
Product
Enterprise Linux
Redhat
Enterprise Linux
Vendor
Redhat
Product
Openshift
Redhat
Openshift
Vendor
Redhat
Product
Openshift Container Platform
Redhat
Openshift Container Platform
Exploits
No exploit reference
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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
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