CVE-2006-5680 | BDVDB-2026-20239 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

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

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12006-11-09Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-07Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.