🛡️ ALSA-2026:8510 — bsdtar

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Important: libarchive security update

The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file managers.

Security Fix(es):

  • libarchive: libarchive: Information disclosure via heap out-of-bounds read in RAR archive processing (CVE-2026-4424)
  • libarchive: libarchive: Arbitrary code execution via integer overflow in ISO9660 image processing (CVE-2026-5121)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Affected software

ALSA-2026:8510 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • bsdtar (fixed in 3.5.3-9.el9_7)
  • libarchive (fixed in 3.5.3-9.el9_7)
  • libarchive-devel (fixed in 3.5.3-9.el9_7)

Timeline and source

Published on 16 April 2026 and last revised on 17 April 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

access.redhat.com (Advisory)
access.redhat.com (Report)
access.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
errata.almalinux.org (Advisory)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-04-16
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-04-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
bsdtar — 3.5.3-9.el9_7
libarchive — 3.5.3-9.el9_7
libarchive-devel — 3.5.3-9.el9_7

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