CVE-2025-5917

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Nov 6, 2026

Description

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. This bug affects libarchive versions prior to 3.8.0.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.0/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
——< 3.8.0
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 10—
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6—
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7—
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8—
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9—
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)—
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Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4—
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4—

References

Timeline

Published
Jun 9, 2025
Last modified
Nov 6, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2025-5917: Medium severity, CVSS 5.0 | Vulnix