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.
Published: 2006-11-09
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: freebsd

Published:

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

Reserved: 2006-11-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5680

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-5680

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