[NEW] [medium] libarchive: Vulnerability enables denial of service

A remote, anonymous attacker can exploit a vulnerability in libarchive to conduct a denial of service attack.

CSIRTS triage

What: A remote attacker can trigger a denial of service condition in libarchive.
Who is affected: Applications and services using libarchive for archive processing are vulnerable to remote denial of service.
Urgency: Medium severity; denial of service only with remote exploitability.
Action: Update libarchive to patched version and test archive processing functionality after update.

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EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

Low exploitation riskCVE-2026-141640.47% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 39% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.

CVE	CSIRTS overview	External
CVE-2026-14164	coverage & exploitation status	NVD · CVE.org

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