diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/files/CVE-2025-70873.patch b/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/files/CVE-2025-70873.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..86004c0b74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/files/CVE-2025-70873.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+From 5a05c59d4d75c03f23d5fb70feac9f789954bf8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: drh <>
+Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 20:41:24 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] In the zipfile extension, only return as many bytes as
+ Inflate actually generated.  [forum:/forumpost/761eac3c82|Forum post
+ 761eac3c82]. Adjust ./configure so that it builds zipfile into testfixture if
+ ZLIB is available, so that tests get run on unix platforms.
+
+FossilOrigin-Name: 3d459f1fb1bd1b5e723629c463ab392af7b206ece3388bda216c6a4c26160909
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/commit/5a05c59d4d75c03f23d5fb70feac9f789954bf8a]
+CVE: CVE-2025-70873
+Signed-off-by: Vijay Anusuri <vanusuri@mvista.com>
+---
+ shell.c | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/shell.c b/shell.c
+index fa45d40..3c4902c 100644
+--- a/shell.c
++++ b/shell.c
+@@ -7668,7 +7668,7 @@ static void zipfileInflate(
+       if( err!=Z_STREAM_END ){
+         zipfileCtxErrorMsg(pCtx, "inflate() failed (%d)", err);
+       }else{
+-        sqlite3_result_blob(pCtx, aRes, nOut, zipfileFree);
++        sqlite3_result_blob(pCtx, aRes, (int)str.total_out, zipfileFree);
+         aRes = 0;
+       }
+     }
+-- 
+2.25.1
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3_3.38.5.bb b/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3_3.38.5.bb
index acdd80022e..9e10caa399 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3_3.38.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3_3.38.5.bb
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.sqlite.org/2022/sqlite-autoconf-${SQLITE_PV}.tar.gz \
            file://CVE-2023-7104.patch \
            file://CVE-2025-29088.patch \
            file://CVE-2025-6965.patch \
+           file://CVE-2025-70873.patch \
            "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "5af07de982ba658fd91a03170c945f99c971f6955bc79df3266544373e39869c"