Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2025-03-21 17:49
Modified
2025-03-21 17:49
Summary
Security update for libarchive

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for libarchive
Description of the patch
This update for libarchive fixes the following issues: - CVE-2025-25724: Fixed buffer overflow vulnerability in function list_item_verbose() in tar/util.c (bsc#1238610).
Patchnames
SUSE-2025-986,SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-986,SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-986,SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-986
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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