🛡️ OESA-2025-1311 — libarchive (CVE-2025-1632 +1 more)

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
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Description

libarchive security update

is an open-source BSD-licensed C programming library that

provides streaming access to a variety of different archive formats,

including tar, cpio, pax, zip, and ISO9660 images. The distribution

also includes bsdtar and bsdcpio, full-featured implementations of

tar and cpio that use .

Security Fix(es):

A vulnerability was found in libarchive up to 3.7.7. It has been classified as problematic. This affects the function list of the file bsdunzip.c. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.(CVE-2025-1632)

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)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability low.

Affected software

OESA-2025-1311 is recorded against 1 package.

  • libarchive (fixed in 3.7.1-6.oe2403sp1)

Timeline and source

Published on 21 March 2025 and last revised on 18 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.openeuler.org (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-03-21
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-18
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
libarchive — 3.7.1-6.oe2403sp1

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