RLSA-2025:14130

Synopsis

Important: libarchive security update

Description

The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file managers.

Security Fix(es):

* libarchive: Double free at archive_read_format_rar_seek_data() in archive_read_support_format_rar.c (CVE-2025-5914)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Affected products

Rocky Linux 9.6 aarch64 Rocky Linux 9.6 ppc64le Rocky Linux 9.6 s390x Rocky Linux 9.6 x86_64

Fixes

2370861

CVEs

CVE-2025-5914

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 9.6 aarch64 - AppStream

bsdtar-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.aarch64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.aarch64.rpm libarchive-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.src.rpm libarchive-devel-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 ppc64le - AppStream

bsdtar-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.ppc64le.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.src.rpm libarchive-devel-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 s390x - AppStream

bsdtar-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.s390x.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.s390x.rpm libarchive-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.src.rpm libarchive-devel-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.s390x.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 x86_64 - AppStream

bsdtar-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.x86_64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.x86_64.rpm libarchive-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.src.rpm libarchive-devel-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.i686.rpm libarchive-devel-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 aarch64 - BaseOS

libarchive-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.aarch64.rpm libarchive-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.src.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.aarch64.rpm libarchive-debugsource-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 x86_64 - BaseOS

libarchive-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.i686.rpm libarchive-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.src.rpm libarchive-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.x86_64.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.x86_64.rpm libarchive-debugsource-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 ppc64le - BaseOS

libarchive-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.src.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.ppc64le.rpm libarchive-debugsource-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 s390x - BaseOS

libarchive-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.s390x.rpm libarchive-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.src.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.s390x.rpm libarchive-debugsource-0:3.5.3-6.el9_6.s390x.rpm