CVE Alert: CVE-2025-5916
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-5916
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.
Affected Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
6/9/2025, 8:15:27 PM
❄️ CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedReferences:
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5916
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370872
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2568
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.8.0
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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