Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: libarchive security update

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fro...

libarchive: Double free at archive_read_format_rar_seek_data() in archive_read_support_format_rar.c

A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library, specifically within the archivereadformatrarseekdata function. This flaw involves an integer overflow that can ultimately lead to a double-free condition. Exploiting a double-free vulnerability can result in memory corruption, enablin...

RHEL 8 : libarchive (RHSA-2025:14135)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:14135 advisory. The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM...

Oracle Linux 8 : libarchive (ELSA-2025-14135)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-14135 advisory. - Resolves: CVE-2025-5914 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Note that Nessus has not test...

RHEL 10 : libarchive (RHSA-2025:14137)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:14137 advisory. The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM...

RHEL 9 : libarchive (RHSA-2025:14142)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:14142 advisory. The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM...

RHEL 9 : libarchive (RHSA-2025:14141)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:14141 advisory. The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM...

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...

Fedora 42 : libarchive (2025-47e73aaaea)

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-47e73aaaea advisory. Rebase due to a lot of CVE fixes Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus has not...

libarchive security update

3.3.3-6 - Resolves: CVE-2025-5914 - Skip compression-level=1 size check on s390x. - Related to https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1515...

ALSA-2025:14130 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...

Oracle Linux 10 : libarchive (ELSA-2025-14137)

The remote Oracle Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-14137 advisory. 3.7.7-4 - Resolves: CVE-2025-5914 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Note that Nessus has...

Fedora: Security Advisory (FEDORA-2025-47e73aaaea)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

libarchive security update

3.5.3-6 - Resolves: CVE-2025-5914...

ALSA-2025:14137 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...

RHEL 9 : libarchive (RHSA-2025:14130)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:14130 advisory. The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM...

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...

Oracle Linux 9 : libarchive (ELSA-2025-14130)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-14130 advisory. 3.5.3-6 - Resolves: CVE-2025-5914 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Note that Nessus has...

ROS-20250819-04

Vulnerability of libarchive library for reading and writing archives in different formats is related to null pointer dereferencing in headerpaxextension function in rchivereadsupportformatformattar.c:1844:8. Exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker, acting remotely to cause a...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-48615

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability in libarchive 3.7.6 and earlier when running program bsdtar in function headerpaxextension at...