ubuntu-cve-2024-57970
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2025-02-17 00:00
Modified
2025-02-17 16:31
Summary
Details

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.

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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57970",
  "modified": "2025-02-17T16:31:50Z",
  "published": "2025-02-17T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-57970"
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57970"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2422"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2415"
    }
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  "related": [
    "CVE-2024-57970"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.3",
  "withdrawn": "2025-06-23T16:00:03Z"
}



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