Bug 2349221 (CVE-2025-25724)

Summary: CVE-2025-25724 libarchive: Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libarchive
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A flaw was found in the libarchive package. Affected versions of libarchive do not check a strftime return value, which can lead to a denial of service or unspecified other impacts 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.
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Bug Depends On: 2349336, 2349337, 2349334, 2349335    
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-03-02 02:01:03 UTC 
list_item_verbose 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.
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-06-24 01:06:34 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2025:9420 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9420
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2025-06-24 06:30:27 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:9431 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9431