CVE-2006-5680

The libarchive library in FreeBSD 6-STABLE after 2006-09-05 and before 2006-11-08 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed archive that causes libarchive to skip a region past the actual end of the archive, which triggers an infinite loop that attempts to read more data.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - secteam@freebsd.org

Published

2006-11-09

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Freebsd (Freebsd)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/22723
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22801
• http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive.asc
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017199
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20961
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30137