NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bsdcpio  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-BSDCPIO-9574831
  • published31 Mar 2025
  • disclosed28 Mar 2025

Introduced: 28 Mar 2025

CVE-2024-48615  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bsdcpio package and not the bsdcpio package as distributed by RHEL.

Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability in libarchive 3.7.6 and earlier when running program bsdtar in function header_pax_extension at rchive_read_support_format_tar.c:1844:8.