ubuntu-cve-2025-5916
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2025-06-09 20:15
Modified
2026-04-22 07:53
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
3.9 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
5.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-5916",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:53:18Z",
  "published": "2025-06-09T20:15:00Z",
  "references": [
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-5916"
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      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5916"
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      "url": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2568"
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  "related": [
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    "USN-8147-1"
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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}



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