Medium severity4.0NVD Advisory· Published Feb 16, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

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.

Patches

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References

github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2415nvd
github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2422nvd

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