CVE-2025-55188

NameCVE-2025-55188
Description7-Zip before 25.01 does not always properly handle symbolic links during extraction.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1111068

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
7zip (PTS)bookworm22.01+dfsg-8+deb12u1vulnerable
trixie24.09+dfsg-8vulnerable
forky, sid25.01+dfsg-2fixed
p7zip (PTS)bookworm, bullseye16.02+dfsg-8vulnerable
forky, sid, trixie16.02+transitional.1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
7zipsource(unstable)25.01+dfsg-11111068
p7zipsource(unstable)16.02+transitional.1

Notes

[trixie] - 7zip <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - 7zip <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - p7zip <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - p7zip <postponed> (Minor issue)
Since p7zip/16.02+transitional.1 src:p7zip is only a empty source package
depending on 7zip. Mark this version as fixed version.
https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/releases/tag/25.01
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/09/1

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