CVE-2024-20697: Windows Libarchive Remote Code Execution Vulnerability


An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the Libarchive library included in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability is due to insufficient bounds checks on the block length of a RARVM filter used for Intel E8 preprocessing, included in the compressed data of a RAR archive.

A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target user into extracting a crafted RAR archive. Successful exploitation could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the application using the vulnerable library.

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Source: Zero Day Initiative


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