High RHSA-2025:14828 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: libarchive security update

Published Aug 31, 2025 · Updated Oct 14, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 5

Release	Package	Fixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	bsdcpio	0:3.1.2-14.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	bsdtar	0:3.1.2-14.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	libarchive	0:3.1.2-14.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	libarchive-debuginfo	0:3.1.2-14.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	libarchive-devel	0:3.1.2-14.el7_9.1

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2025-5914

Libarchive: double free at archive_read_format_rar_seek_data() in archive_read_support_format_rar.c

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 vulnerabi…

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

Jun 9, 2025

References

article
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370861
advisory
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_14828.json
report
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5914
advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5914
advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5914
article
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2598
article
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/tag/v3.8.0