RLSA-2025:14135

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 8 aarch64 Rocky Linux 8 x86_64

Fixes

2370861

CVEs

CVE-2025-5914

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 8 aarch64 - BaseOS

bsdtar-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.aarch64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.aarch64.rpm libarchive-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.aarch64.rpm libarchive-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.src.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.aarch64.rpm libarchive-debugsource-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 8 x86_64 - BaseOS

bsdtar-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.x86_64.rpm bsdtar-debuginfo-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.x86_64.rpm libarchive-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.i686.rpm libarchive-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.src.rpm libarchive-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.x86_64.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.i686.rpm libarchive-debuginfo-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.x86_64.rpm libarchive-debugsource-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.i686.rpm libarchive-debugsource-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 8 aarch64 - PowerTools

libarchive-devel-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 8 x86_64 - PowerTools

libarchive-devel-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.i686.rpm libarchive-devel-0:3.3.3-6.el8_10.x86_64.rpm