High
Security advisory
Libarchive Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-26256
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 13:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Libarchive Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
osv:CVE-2024-26256
Complete source record
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