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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.0

CVE-2024-57970 json

libarchive through 3.7.7 has a heap-based buffer over-read in `header_gnu_longlink` in...

published 2025-02-16 20 mo ago modified 2026-07-23 3 mo ago also EUVD-2024-53870 , GHSA-2q66-6w43-8rm9 , JLSEC-2025-250

cvss
4.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • julia LibArchive_jll 3.7.9+0
  • libarchive RHEL 10.0 3.7.7-2.el10_0
  • bsdtar RHEL 10.0 3.7.7-2.el10_0

red hat advisories RHSA-2025:7510

  • libarchive openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.7.7-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:14844-1

  • libarchive AlmaLinux 10 3.7.7-2.el10_0
  • bsdtar AlmaLinux 10 3.7.7-2.el10_0

almalinux advisories ALSA-2025:7510

  • libarchive Rocky Linux 10 3.7.7-2.el10_0

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2025:7510

  • libarchive Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +4 more 3.7.9-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-57970

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-57970 updated cvss 4.0

libarchive: heap buffer over-read in header_gnu_longlink

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libarchive Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 bsdtar, bsdcpio, libarchive Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 bsdtar, libarchive
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10) bsdtar 3.7.7-2.el10_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10) libarchive 3.7.7-2.el10_0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:7510
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 bsdtar, libarchive Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
20 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
OSV 3.1 4.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia LibArchive_jll
<3.7.9+0
3.7.9+0

Affected products

  • libarchive libarchive

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.