CVE-2006-5680 (GCVE-0-2006-5680)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-11-09 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 19:55
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017199 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/22801 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22723 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20961 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public ?
2006-11-08 00:00
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