CVE-2025-5914: Libarchive

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Libarchive Libarchive: before 3.8.0 (fixed in 3.8.0)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 4.0 only

Published 2025-06-09. Last modified 2026-10-07.