RHEL 9 : libarchive (RHSA-2026:24383)

high Nessus Plugin ID 319706

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for libarchive.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:24383 advisory.

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: Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libarchive (CVE-2025-25724)

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL libarchive package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:24383.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 319706

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-24383.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/8/2026

Updated: 6/8/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-25724

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libarchive-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libarchive, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bsdtar

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-25724

CWE: 252

RHSA: 2026:24383

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