A vulnerability was found in libarchive up to 3.7.7. It has been classified as problematic. This affects the function list of the file bsdunzip.c. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7454-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the libarchive bsdunzip utility incorrectly handled certain ZIP archive files. If a     user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted ZIP archive, an attacker could     use this issue to cause libarchive to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute     arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.10, and Ubuntu 25.04. (CVE-2025-1632)

    It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain TAR archive files. If a user or automated     system were tricked into processing a specially crafted TAR archive, an attacker could use this issue to     cause libarchive to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2025-25724)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0985-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-1632: Fixed null pointer dereference in bsdunzip.c (bsc#1237606)
    - CVE-2025-25724: Fixed buffer overflow vulnerability in function list_item_verbose() in tar/util.c     (bsc#1238610)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the libarchive package has been released.

The version of libarchive installed on the remote host is prior to 3.7.8. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2025-079-01 advisory.

    New libarchive packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the libarchive security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
234800	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 : libarchive vulnerabilities (USN-7454-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
233204	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : libarchive (SUSE-SU-2025:0985-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
233176	Photon OS 5.0: Libarchive PHSA-2025-5.0-0487	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
233053	Slackware Linux 15.0 / current libarchive Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2025-079-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	medium

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