CVE-2024-57970

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-02-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-126

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 products

libarchive: through 3.7.7

References

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2415
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2422

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