CVE-2025-60753

Description

An issue was discovered in libarchive bsdtar before version 3.8.1 in function apply_substitution in file tar/subst.c when processing crafted -s substitution rules. This can cause unbounded memory allocation and lead to denial of service (Out-of-Memory crash).

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-09-26 | Published 2025-11-05 | Updated 2025-11-05 | Assigner mitre

References

github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2725

github.com/Papya-j/CVE/tree/main/CVE-2025-60753

cve.org (CVE-2025-60753)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-60753)

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