CVE-2006-5680

published 2006-11-09

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…

Priority P4 18 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C N I N A P

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.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	libarchive	< libarchive 1.3.1-1 (bookworm)	libarchive 1.3.1-1 (bookworm)
freebsd	freebsd	—	—
libarchive	libarchive	>= 0 < 1.3.1-1	1.3.1-1
libarchive	libarchive	>= 0 < 1.3.1-1	1.3.1-1
libarchive	libarchive	>= 0 < 1.3.1-1	1.3.1-1
libarchive	libarchive	>= 0 < 1.3.1-1	1.3.1-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.0 LOW

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