A flaw was found in libarchive. A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the ACL parsing logic, specifically within the archive_acl_from_text_nl() function. When processing a malformed ACL string (such as a bare "d" or "default" tag without subsequent fields), the function fails to perform adequate validation before advancing the pointer. An attacker can exploit this by providing a maliciously crafted archive, causing an application utilizing the libarchive API (such as bsdtar) to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

An update of the libarchive package has been released.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A flaw was found in libarchive. A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the ACL parsing logic,     specifically within the archive_acl_from_text_nl() function. When processing a malformed ACL string (such     as a bare d or default tag without subsequent fields), the function fails to perform adequate     validation before advancing the pointer. An attacker can exploit this by providing a maliciously crafted     archive, causing an application utilizing the libarchive API (such as bsdtar) to crash, resulting in a     Denial of Service (DoS). (CVE-2026-5745)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
334032	Photon OS 5.0: Libarchive PHSA-2026-5.0-91-0825	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	critical
307888	Photon OS 5.0: Libarchive PHSA-2026-5.0-0825	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	critical
305212	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-5745	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium

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