Red Hat Security Advisory: libarchive security update
A buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2025-25724) has been identified in the libarchive programming library, which is used to create and read various streaming archive formats. This vulnerability affects multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. 4 variants across different architectures. Red Hat has issued a security advisory rating the impact as moderate and has released updated packages to address the issue. No known exploits are reported in the wild at this time.
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Technical Summary
The libarchive library, utilized by utilities like bsdtar and various scripting language bindings, contains a buffer overflow vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-25724. This flaw could potentially lead to memory corruption when processing certain archive formats. The vulnerability affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 distributions on multiple architectures including x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x. Red Hat Product Security has published an advisory (RHSA-2026:24383) and released updated libarchive packages to remediate the issue.
Potential Impact
The buffer overflow vulnerability in libarchive may allow an attacker to cause memory corruption, which could lead to application crashes or potentially arbitrary code execution depending on exploitation. The security impact is rated as moderate by Red Hat. There are no reports of active exploitation in the wild.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated libarchive packages for affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 variants. Users should apply these official patches as detailed in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:24383 and the update instructions at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying these updates mitigates the vulnerability. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor.
Red Hat Security Advisory: libarchive security update
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2025-25724) has been identified in the libarchive programming library, which is used to create and read various streaming archive formats. This vulnerability affects multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. 4 variants across different architectures. Red Hat has issued a security advisory rating the impact as moderate and has released updated packages to address the issue. No known exploits are reported in the wild at this time.
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Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
The libarchive library, utilized by utilities like bsdtar and various scripting language bindings, contains a buffer overflow vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-25724. This flaw could potentially lead to memory corruption when processing certain archive formats. The vulnerability affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 distributions on multiple architectures including x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x. Red Hat Product Security has published an advisory (RHSA-2026:24383) and released updated libarchive packages to remediate the issue.
Potential Impact
The buffer overflow vulnerability in libarchive may allow an attacker to cause memory corruption, which could lead to application crashes or potentially arbitrary code execution depending on exploitation. The security impact is rated as moderate by Red Hat. There are no reports of active exploitation in the wild.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated libarchive packages for affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 variants. Users should apply these official patches as detailed in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:24383 and the update instructions at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying these updates mitigates the vulnerability. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2026:24383
- Cve Count
- 1
- Additional Cves
- []
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a27320ee29bf47b509bf2d6
Added to database: 6/8/2026, 9:20:14 PM
Last enriched: 6/8/2026, 9:21:28 PM
Last updated: 6/9/2026, 12:41:53 AM
Views: 5
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