CVE-2024-57970

libarchive through 3.7.7 has a heap-based buffer over-read in headergnulonglink in archivereadsupportformattar.c via a TAR archive because it mishandles truncation in the middle of a GNU long linkname.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner": "mitre",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/57xxx/CVE-2024-57970.json",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "3.7.7"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "3.7.7"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "3.7.7"
                }
            ],
            "source": "DESCRIPTION"
        }
    ],
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-126"
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Events

Introduced

Fixed

b439d586f53911c84be5e380445a8a259e19114c

Database specific

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.7.7"
        }
    ],
    "source": "DESCRIPTION"
}

Affected versions

v3.*

v3.0.0a

v3.0.1b

v3.1.900a

v3.2.0

v3.2.1

v3.2.2

v3.3.0

v3.3.1

v3.3.2

v3.3.3

v3.4.0

v3.4.1

v3.4.2

v3.4.3

v3.5.0

v3.5.1

v3.5.2

v3.6.0

v3.6.1

v3.6.2

v3.7.0

v3.7.1

v3.7.2

v3.7.3

v3.7.4

v3.7.5

v3.7.6

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-57970.json"