A flaw was found in libarchive. This heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the RAR archive processing logic due to improper validation of the LZSS sliding window size after transitions between compression methods. A remote attacker can exploit this by providing a specially crafted RAR archive, leading to the disclosure of sensitive heap memory information without requiring authentication or user interaction.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · libarchive, redhatNVD modified 2026-10-14 20:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 13
cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:redhat:hardened_images:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform_for_arm64:4.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform_for_power:4.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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