NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libarchive package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.08% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBARCHIVE-10360256
  • published15 Jun 2025
  • disclosed28 Mar 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Mar 2025

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libarchive.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference via the header_pax_extension function. An attacker can cause a system crash by providing a specially crafted TAR archive.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1