CVE-2006-5680

CVE-2006-5680 concerns the libarchive library used by FreeBSD 6-STABLE (versions after 2006-09-05 and before 2006-11-08). The issue arises when libarchive processes a malformed archive: a context-dependent attacker can trigger an infinite loop by skipping past the actual end of the archive, causi...

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 consumption via a malformed archive that causes libarchive to skip a region past the actual end of the archive, which triggers an infinite loop tha...