CVE-2024-57970

MEDIUM4.0EPSS 0.02%
Published: 2/16/2025Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2024-57970

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.

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1MEDIUM4.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References (1)