Microsoft · Windows · CVE-2024-20696
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
Windows (affected versions not specified)
**Description**
The vulnerability is related to insufficient input validation in the libarchive library, which may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. A heap-based out-of-bounds write vulnerability was discovered in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a specially crafted RAR archive is processed.
**Recommendations**
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.