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Echo: libarchive: security update to 3.7.4-4

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 463077

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library. This flaw involves an integer overflow that
 can be triggered when processing a Web Archive (WARC) file that claims to have more than INT64_MAX - 4
 content bytes. An attacker could craft a malicious WARC archive to induce this overflow, potentially
 leading to unpredictable program behavior, memory corruption, or a denial-of-service condition within
 applications that process such archives using libarchive. This bug affects libarchive versions prior to
 3.8.0. (CVE-2025-5916)

Solution

Update the libarchive library and its related packages to version 3.7.4-4 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2025-5916

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 463077

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/2/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 51.63

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.2

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5916

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5916

IAVA: 2025-A-0551-S