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CVE-2024-57970

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57970

Severity

4.0

Medium

CVSS V3

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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.

References

  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57970
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2q66-6w43-8rm9
  • https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2415
  • https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2422

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