# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-5915"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-09T19:49:02.143Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-01T12:08:10.232Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:39.058Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-5915"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-5915.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5915"
title: "Libarchive: heap buffer over read in copy_from_lzss_window() at archive_read_support_format_rar.c"
summary: "A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library. This flaw can lead to a heap buffer over-read due to the size of a filter block potentially exceeding the Lempel-Ziv-Storer-Schieber (LZSS) window. This means the library may attempt to read beyond the allocated memory buffer, which can result in unpredictable program behavior, crashes (denial of service), or the disclosure of sensitive information from adjacent memory regions."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.8.0"}],"packageName":"libarchive","collectionURL":"https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10","packageName":"libarchive","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"affected"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6","packageName":"libarchive","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"unknown"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7","packageName":"libarchive","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"unknown"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8","packageName":"libarchive","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"affected"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9","packageName":"libarchive","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"affected"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4","packageName":"openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"affected"},{"versions":[],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4","packageName":"openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9","collectionURL":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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