Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-16517 — azl3 libarchive
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- azl3 libarchive 3.7.7-6 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 libarchive 3.7.7-7 on Azure Linux 3.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: 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 | — |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-16517
- EchelonGraph score
- 2.9 LOW
- 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
A signed integer overflow vulnerability was found in libarchive's ZIP writer. In the archive_write_zip_header function in archive_write_set_format_zip.c, when ZIP encryption is enabled and the entry file size is close to INT64_MAX, the addition of the encryption overhead to the entry size overflows int64_t, resulting in undefined behavior. This could lead to incorrect Zip64 extension decisions or potential memory corruption.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-16517, 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).