CVE-2010-4666

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    CVE-2010-4666

    Published: 13 Apr 2012Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705849, http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail?r=2842

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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