CVE-2024-57970: Libarchive

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 0.3% 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.

Affected products

• Libarchive Libarchive: up to and including 3.7.7

Published 2025-02-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.