INFSA-2025:9420: libarchive security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2025:9420

Type: security

Release date: 2025-07-15 19:26:51 UTC

Information about package

The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file managers.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2025-25724

    A flaw was found in the libarchive package. Affected versions of libarchive do not check a strftime return value, which can lead to a denial of service or unspecified other impacts via a crafted TAR archive that is read with a verbose value of 2. For example, the 100-byte buffer may not be sufficient for a custom locale.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
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Critical, important, moderate, low

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