CVE-2025-5916
LOW severity · CVSS 3.9 · Integer overflow
3.9CVSS LOW
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactLow
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2568 ↗