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RockyLinux 10 : libarchive (RLSA-2025:7510)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 266557

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Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2025:7510 advisory.

 * libarchive: heap buffer over-read in header_gnu_longlink (CVE-2024-57970)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:7510

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2345954

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 266557

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-7510.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 10/4/2025

Updated: 10/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-57970

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:bsdtar, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:10, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:bsdtar-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libarchive, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libarchive-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libarchive-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libarchive-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/3/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-57970