CVE-2024-48615

Publication date 28 March 2025

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libarchive	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

introduced in 3.7.5 by: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/2d8a5760c5ec553283a95a1aaca746f6eb472d0f

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libarchive	Upstream: 565b5ae

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H