CVE-2006-5680

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…

published November 9, 2006

CVSS
—
EPSS
2%
Percentile
75.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01591 · 75.5th percentile
Published
2006-11-09T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 NOV 00:00Z
    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…
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