Issued:
2025-06-24
Updated:
2025-06-24

RHSA-2025:9420 - Moderate: libarchive security update

Synopsis

Moderate: libarchive security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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: Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libarchive (CVE-2025-25724)

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_6410x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support10.0x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - 4 years of updates10.0x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian10ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support10.0ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - 4 years of support10.0ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems10s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support10.0s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates10.0s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 6410aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support10.0aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates10.0aarch64

Updated Packages

  • bsdtar-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.x86_64.rpm
  • bsdcat-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.x86_64.rpm
  • bsdunzip-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.s390x.rpm
  • bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.s390x.rpm
  • bsdunzip-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.aarch64.rpm
  • bsdcat-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.s390x.rpm
  • bsdunzip-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • libarchive-3.7.7-3.el10_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • bsdtar-3.7.7-3.el10_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • libarchive-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.s390x.rpm
  • libarchive-debugsource-3.7.7-3.el10_0.s390x.rpm
  • libarchive-debugsource-3.7.7-3.el10_0.aarch64.rpm
  • bsdtar-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • bsdcat-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.aarch64.rpm
  • libarchive-3.7.7-3.el10_0.aarch64.rpm
  • bsdtar-3.7.7-3.el10_0.x86_64.rpm
  • bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.aarch64.rpm
  • bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • bsdcat-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • libarchive-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • libarchive-devel-3.7.7-3.el10_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • libarchive-debugsource-3.7.7-3.el10_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • bsdtar-3.7.7-3.el10_0.aarch64.rpm
  • bsdtar-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.s390x.rpm
  • libarchive-devel-3.7.7-3.el10_0.aarch64.rpm
  • bsdunzip-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.x86_64.rpm
  • libarchive-3.7.7-3.el10_0.x86_64.rpm
  • libarchive-3.7.7-3.el10_0.src.rpm
  • libarchive-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.aarch64.rpm
  • libarchive-devel-3.7.7-3.el10_0.s390x.rpm
  • bsdtar-3.7.7-3.el10_0.s390x.rpm
  • libarchive-debugsource-3.7.7-3.el10_0.x86_64.rpm
  • bsdtar-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.aarch64.rpm
  • libarchive-3.7.7-3.el10_0.s390x.rpm
  • libarchive-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.x86_64.rpm
  • libarchive-devel-3.7.7-3.el10_0.x86_64.rpm
  • bsdcpio-debuginfo-3.7.7-3.el10_0.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information