CVE-2006-5680

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    CVE-2006-5680

    Published: 9 Nov 2006Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/22723, http://secunia.com/advisories/22801, http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive.asc, 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

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High