Advisories » MGASA-2025-0102

Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Mar 2025
Modification date: 17 Mar 2025
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 9
CVE: CVE-2025-25724

Description

list_item_verbose in tar/util.c in libarchive through 3.7.7 does not
check an strftime return value, which can lead to a denial of service or
unspecified other impact via a crafted TAR archive that is read with a
verbose value of 2. For example, the 100-byte buffer may not be
sufficient for a custom locale. (CVE-2025-25724
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34102
• https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/message/2VPBSF65DTMKEEGFEJY6QEGJSZY7TSKV/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2025-25724

SRPMS

9/core

• libarchive-3.6.2-5.4.mga9