CVE-2024-57970

State: Published
Severity: 4.0 Medium
Published: Feb 16, 2025
Updated: Feb 18, 2025
Reserved: Feb 16, 2025

Description

libarchive through 3.7.7 has a heap-based buffer over-read in header_gnu_longlink in archive_read_support_format_tar.c via a TAR archive because it mishandles truncation in the middle of a GNU long linkname.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.0 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	mitre

Weaknesses

CWE-126 Buffer Over-read

Affected Products

Product	Versions
libarchivelibarchive	3.7.7 and earlierAffected

References

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2415
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2422

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