CVE-2025-5917 – Apache Libarchive Write Overflow Vulnerability

CVE ID : CVE-2025-5917

Published : June 9, 2025, 8:15 p.m. | 44 minutes ago

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.

Severity: 2.8 | LOW

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