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SUSE: libsecure High Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities 2025:12345-1

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Calendar Grey September 1, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
Enhancements to libarchive rectify security vulnerabilities of moderate severity. Comprehensive patching guidelines provided.
* bsc#1244270 * bsc#1244272 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-5914

Summary

## This update for libarchive fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-5916, Fixed integer overflow while reading warc files at archive_read_support_format_warc.c (bsc#1244270) * CVE-2025-5914: Fixed double free due to an integer overflow in the archive_read_format_rar_seek_data() function (bsc#1244272) ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-2025-2522=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64) * libarchive13-debuginfo-3.3.3-32.14.1 * libarchive-devel-3.3.3-32.14.1 * libarchive13-3.3.3-32.14.1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SuSE integer overflow memory management libarchive

References

* bsc#1244270

* bsc#1244272

Cross-

* CVE-2025-5914

* CVE-2025-5916

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-5914 ( SUSE ): 7.3

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-5914 ( SUSE ): 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2025-5914 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2025-5914 ( NVD ): 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2025-5916 ( SUSE ): 4.6

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-5916 ( SUSE ): 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

* CVE-2025-5916 ( NVD ): 3.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

* CVE-2025-5916 ( NVD ): 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02522-2
Release Date: 2025-09-01T07:03:59Z
Rating: moderate

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SuSE integer overflow memory management libarchive

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