FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Infinite loop in corrupt archives handling in libarchive3 Category: core Module: libarchive Announce...

libarchive library DoS

End of archive during region skipping causes infinite loop...

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...

FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Infinite loop in corrupt archives handling in libarchive3 Category: core Module: libarchive...

libarchive -- Infinite loop in corrupt archives handling in libarchive

Problem Description: If the end of an archive is reached while attempting to "skip" past a region of an archive, libarchive will enter an infinite loop wherein it repeatedly attempts and fails to read further data. Impact: An attacker able to cause a system to extract via "tar -x" or another...