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LIN1021-16025 : Security Advisory - libarchive - CVE-2025-5916

Created: Jun 12, 2025    Updated: Jul 4, 2025
Found In Version: 10.21.20.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 21
Component/s: Userspace

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library. This flaw involves an integer overflow that can be triggered when processing a Web Archive (WARC) file that claims to have more than INT64_MAX - 4 content bytes. An attacker could craft a malicious WARC archive to induce this overflow, potentially leading to unpredictable program behavior, memory corruption, or a denial-of-service condition within applications that process such archives using libarchive.

CREATE(Triage):(User=lchen-cn) CVE-2025-5916 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5916)
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