A vulnerability has been identified in the libarchive library. This flaw can be triggered whe
n file streams are piped into bsdtar, potentially allowing for reading past the end of the fi
le. This out-of-bounds read can lead to unintended consequences, including unpredictable prog
ram behavior, memory corruption, or a denial-of-service condition.
CVE-2025-5918-0001 is the dependent commit and CVE-2025-5918-0002 is the actual CVE fix.
Reference:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-5918
Upstream-patches:
89b8c35ff4dcbf1e0ede
(From OE-Core rev: 369c164a163b2c7f15ee5fc41130be9feaf7245e)
Signed-off-by: Divya Chellam <divya.chellam@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>