CVE-2025-25724

listitemverbose 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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Events

Introduced

Last affected

b439d586f53911c84be5e380445a8a259e19114c

Database specific

{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.7.7"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v3.*

v3.0.0a

v3.0.1b

v3.1.900a

v3.2.0

v3.2.1

v3.2.2

v3.3.0

v3.3.1

v3.3.2

v3.3.3

v3.4.0

v3.4.1

v3.4.2

v3.4.3

v3.5.0

v3.5.1

v3.5.2

v3.6.0

v3.6.1

v3.6.2

v3.7.0

v3.7.1

v3.7.2

v3.7.3

v3.7.4

v3.7.5

v3.7.6

v3.7.7

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-25724.json"