vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-57970: Buffer Over-read

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 16, 2025
Added
Aug 8, 2025
Modified
Dec 22, 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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libarchive
Title
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