Patch Tuesday Diffing: CVE-2024-20696 - Windows Libarchive RCE
11 March 2024 at 04:45
TL;DR This post will teach you how to patch diff CVE-2024-20696 (and indirectly CVE-2024-20697) from the January 2024 Patch Tuesday. This security patch was interesting as it wasnβt fixing native Microsoft software per se, rather patching an open-source library libarchive used by Windows to support compression and decompression functionality. Patch diffing is a powerful technique for unde...