CVE-2006-5680

Published Nov 9, 2006 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 1.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-5665 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
freebsd
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 7:55 PM
Reserved
Nov 3, 2006, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 9, 2006, 12:07 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:31 PM