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CVE-2010-4666 (GCVE-0-2010-4666)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-04-13 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:51
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Summary
Buffer overflow in libarchive 3.0 pre-release code allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted CAB file, which is not properly handled during the reading of Huffman code data within LZX compressed data.
Severity
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CWE
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