CVE-2026-5121: Libarchive

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in libarchive. On 32-bit systems, an integer overflow vulnerability exists in the zisofs block pointer allocation logic. A remote attacker can exploit this by providing a specially crafted ISO9660 image, which can lead to a heap buffer overflow. This could potentially allow for arbitrary code execution on the affected system.

Affected products

• Libarchive Libarchive: affected versions not specified
• 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 Hardened Images: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 4.0 only

Published 2026-03-30. Last modified 2026-09-29.