Home

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library. This flaw can be triggered when file streams are piped into bsdtar, potentially allowing for reading past the end of the file. This out-of-bounds read can lead to unintended consequences, including unpredictable program behavior, memory corruption, or a denial-of-service condition.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-06-09 | Published 2025-06-09 | Updated 2026-01-08 | Assigner redhat




LOW: 3.9CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Problem types

Out-of-bounds Read

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 3.8.0
affected

Default status
affected

Default status
unknown

Default status
unknown

Default status
affected

Default status
affected

Default status
affected

Timeline

2025-06-06:Reported to Red Hat.
2025-05-20:Made public.

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5918 vdb-entry

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370877 (RHBZ#2370877) issue-tracking

github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2584

github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.8.0

cve.org (CVE-2025-5918)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-5918)

Download JSON