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CVE-2007-3645

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2007-07-15 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

archive_read_support_format_tar.c in libarchive before 2.2.4 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via (1) an end-of-file condition within a tar header that follows a pax extension header or (2) a malformed pax extension header in an (a) PAX or a (b) TAR archive, which results in a NULL pointer dereference, a different issue than CVE-2007-3644.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Libarchive

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References