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CVE-2006-5680

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2006-11-09 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References