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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: freebsd

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Updated: 2024-08-07T19:55:54.159Z

Reserved: 2006-11-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-5680

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-11-09T00:07:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2006-5680

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