CVE-2025-5914

A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library, specifically within the archive_read_format_rar_seek_data() 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, enabling an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner":  "redhat",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-190"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/5xxx/CVE-2025-5914.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Events

Introduced

Fixed

70ff28fcf04ec129a1d064f96e49aa57fcc90e37

Database specific

Show details

{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "3.8.0"
        }
    ],
    "source":  [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

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

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-5914.json"