INFSA-2025:7510: libarchive security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2025:7510

Type: security

Release date: 2025-07-15 19:46:02 UTC

Information about package

The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file managers.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2024-57970

    A flaw was found in the libarchive library. A specially-crafted tar file may trigger a head-based buffer over-read condition due to incorrect handling of truncation in the middle of a long GNU linkname. This issue can cause an application crash leading to a denial of service.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
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