CVE-2024-57970

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

16/02/2025

Last modified:

18/02/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.00 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x

4.00

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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