CVE-2024-57970mediumCWE-126

CVE-2024-57970: medium-severity vulnerability in libarchive

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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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
libarchive · libarchive
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