CVE Alert: CVE-2024-57970

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Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2024-57970

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 Endpoints:

No affected endpoints listed.

Published Date:

2/16/2025, 4:15:21 AM

⚠️ CVSS Score:

CVSS v3 Score: 4 (Medium)

Exploit Status:

Not Exploited

EPS Score: 0.00043 | Ranking EPS: 0.1166

References:

Recommended Action:

No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.


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