CVE-2025-5916

Published Jun 9, 2025

Last updated a month ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
3.9
Impact score
2.5
Exploitability score
1.3
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Severity
LOW

Weaknesses

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-190

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