CVE-2006-5680 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00787.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Freebsd	Freebsd

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6:stable:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

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

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: freebsd

Published: 2006-11-09T00:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2006-5680

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

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

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

Link: CVE-2006-5680

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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