Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing platform (Jaeger) 3.5.3 release
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: Double free at archive_read_format_rar_seek_data() in archive_read_support_format_rar.c (CVE-2025-5914) 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.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
The libarchive programming library, which supports multiple streaming archive formats including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660, contains a double free vulnerability in the function archive_read_format_rar_seek_data() within archive_read_support_format_rar.c (CVE-2025-5914). This vulnerability affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Extended Lifecycle Support versions. The issue was fixed in libarchive package updates released by Red Hat, as documented in their security advisories RHSA-2025:14828 and RHSA-2025:14130. The vulnerability could potentially lead to memory corruption due to double free, but no known exploits in the wild have been reported.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a double free condition when processing RAR archives, potentially leading to memory corruption or application crashes in software using libarchive. This could impact utilities and applications relying on libarchive for archive handling, such as bsdtar and python-libarchive bindings. Red Hat rates the security impact as Important (high severity). There are no reports of active exploitation in the wild.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released official security updates for libarchive that fix this double free vulnerability. Users of affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 9 Extended Lifecycle Support versions should apply the provided libarchive package updates as detailed in Red Hat advisories RHSA-2025:14828 and RHSA-2025:14130. No additional mitigation steps are required beyond applying these official patches.
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing platform (Jaeger) 3.5.3 release
Description
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: Double free at archive_read_format_rar_seek_data() in archive_read_support_format_rar.c (CVE-2025-5914) 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
Weaknesses
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
The libarchive programming library, which supports multiple streaming archive formats including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660, contains a double free vulnerability in the function archive_read_format_rar_seek_data() within archive_read_support_format_rar.c (CVE-2025-5914). This vulnerability affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Extended Lifecycle Support versions. The issue was fixed in libarchive package updates released by Red Hat, as documented in their security advisories RHSA-2025:14828 and RHSA-2025:14130. The vulnerability could potentially lead to memory corruption due to double free, but no known exploits in the wild have been reported.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a double free condition when processing RAR archives, potentially leading to memory corruption or application crashes in software using libarchive. This could impact utilities and applications relying on libarchive for archive handling, such as bsdtar and python-libarchive bindings. Red Hat rates the security impact as Important (high severity). There are no reports of active exploitation in the wild.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released official security updates for libarchive that fix this double free vulnerability. Users of affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 9 Extended Lifecycle Support versions should apply the provided libarchive package updates as detailed in Red Hat advisories RHSA-2025:14828 and RHSA-2025:14130. No additional mitigation steps are required beyond applying these official patches.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:14808
- Cve Count
- 1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6a1f4e87e29bf47b5007ff10
Added to database: 06/02/2026, 21:43:35 UTC
Last enriched: 08/16/2026, 17:00:41 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:42:37 UTC
Views: 157
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