Microsoft security update for CVE-2025-60753
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products4
- azl3 libarchive 3.7.7-3 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 libarchive 3.7.7-4 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 libarchive 3.6.1-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 libarchive 3.6.1-8 on CBL Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 3.7.7-4 |
| — | Security Update | 3.6.1-8 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2025-60753
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.5 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
An issue was discovered in libarchive bsdtar before version 3.8.1 in function apply_substitution in file tar/subst.c when processing crafted -s substitution rules. This can cause unbounded memory allocation and lead to denial of service (Out-of-Memory crash).
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2025-60753, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).