CVE Alert: CVE-2025-5917
Vulnerability Summary: 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.
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-2025-5917
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370874
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2588
- 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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