CVE-2026-5745Medium· 5.5▾ SunlitA 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…
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 30.3 · likelihood 0 · exploitation 0
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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).
libarchivehardened_imagesopenshift_container_platform = 4.0enterprise_linux = 6.0enterprise_linux = 7.0enterprise_linux = 8.0enterprise_linux = 9.0enterprise_linux = 10.0Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
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