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5.6Medium CVE-2025-5916 Libarchive

A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library.

A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library. This flaw involves an integer overflow that can be triggered when processing a Web Archive (WARC) file that claims to have more than INT64_MAX - 4 content bytes. An attacker could craft a malicious WARC archive to induce this overflow, potentially leading to unpredictable program behavior, memory corruption, or a denial-of-service cond

What happened

A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library. This flaw involves an integer overflow that can be triggered when processing a Web Archive (WARC) file that claims to have more than INT64_MAX - 4 content bytes. An attacker could craft a malicious WARC archive to induce this overflow, potentially leading to unpredictable program behavior, memory corruption, or a denial-of-service condition within applications that process such archives using libarchive. This bug affects libarchive versions prior to 3.8.0.

Does it affect you

Not enough information

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What to do

  • Follow the vendor advisory for the fixed release and any interim mitigation.
    access.redhat.com
  • Apply the vendor patch named in this advisory.
    github.com
  • Follow the vendor advisory for the fixed release and any interim mitigation.
    github.com

Vendor's affected list

rhel
Exactly 6.0

Sources

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