CVE-2025-5916

Publication date 9 June 2025

Last updated 26 June 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

3.9 · Low

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libarchive 25.04 plucky
Fixed 3.7.7-0ubuntu2.3
24.10 oracular
Fixed 3.7.4-1ubuntu0.3
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 3.7.2-2ubuntu0.5
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 3.6.0-1ubuntu1.5
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 3.9 · Low
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact None
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L