CVE-2006-5680

FreeBSD 6-STABLE 2006-09-05 to 2006-11-08 - Denial of Service via Malformed Archive Processing

Title source: llm

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.

References (6)

Core 6

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30137

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017199

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/22801

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/22723

Exploit, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_freebsd

http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive.asc

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20961

Scores

EPSS 0.0079

EPSS Percentile 74.1%

Details

Status published

Products (1)

freebsd/freebsd 6 stable

Published Nov 09, 2006

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026