CVE-2024-57970

Published: Feb 16, 2025Modified: Feb 18, 2025

4.0

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Exploitability: 2.5 / Impact: 1.4

Source: MITRE (Secondary)

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.

Related CWEs

CWE-126

Buffer Over-read

The product reads from a buffer using buffer access mechanisms such as indexes or pointers that reference memory locations after the targeted buffer.

References (2)

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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