Description
A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library. This flaw involves an integer overflow that can be triggered when processing a Web Archive (WARC) file that claims to have more than INT64_MAX - 4 content bytes. An attacker could craft a malicious WARC archive to induce this overflow, potentially leading to unpredictable program behavior, memory corruption, or a denial-of-service condition within applications that process such archives using libarchive. This bug affects libarchive versions prior to 3.8.0.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- required
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- low
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- low
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- LIBARCHIVE
- Published
- 6/9/2025
- Last Modified
- 12/12/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
libarchive : libarchiveredhat : openshift_container_platformredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linux
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