Mageia alert MGASA-2025-0102 (libarchive)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2025-0102: Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability
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Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:34:12 +0100
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MGASA-2025-0102 - Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Mar 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0102.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 9
CVE: CVE-2025-25724

Description:
list_item_verbose in tar/util.c in libarchive through 3.7.7 does not
check an strftime return value, which can lead to a denial of service or
unspecified other impact via a crafted TAR archive that is read with a
verbose value of 2. For example, the 100-byte buffer may not be
sufficient for a custom locale. (CVE-2025-25724

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34102
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https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announc...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2025-2...

SRPMS:
- 9/core/libarchive-3.6.2-5.4.mga9