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Bug 951332 (CVE-2024-57970, CVE-2025-1632, CVE-2025-25724) - <app-arch/libarchive-3.7.8: Multiple vulnerabilities
Summary: <app-arch/libarchive-3.7.8: Multiple vulnerabilities
Status: IN_PROGRESS
Alias: CVE-2024-57970, CVE-2025-1632, CVE-2025-25724
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL:
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa?]
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Depends on: 951708
Blocks:
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Reported: 2025-03-14 11:26 UTC by Sam James
Modified: 2025-03-30 20:04 UTC (History)
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Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2025-03-14 11:26:56 UTC 
"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."
Comment 1 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2025-03-21 11:21:21 UTC 
commit 65f6685b82458f2aea81522ba23f51a3e6d78ecf
Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Date:   Fri Mar 21 04:19:38 2025 +0100

    app-arch/libarchive: Bump to 3.7.8

    Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>

It also has other security fixes:
"""
Security fixes:

    tar reader: Handle truncation in the middle of a GNU long linkname (#2422, CVE-2024-57970)
    unzip: fix null pointer dereference (#2532, CVE-2025-1632)
    tar reader: fix unchecked return value in list_item_verbose() (#2532, CVE-2025-25724)
"""