CVE-2024-57970

4.0 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (4.0). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

4.0 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 16% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-126
Published: 2025-02-16
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

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

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