Red Hat alert RHSA-2025:14142-01 (libarchive)

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4
Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. 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.

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.

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