CVE-2006-5680

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-11-09 · updated 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 products

FreeBSD: 6-stable

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22723
http://secunia.com/advisories/22801
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive.asc
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017199
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20961
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30137
http://secunia.com/advisories/22723
http://secunia.com/advisories/22801
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive.asc
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017199
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20961
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30137

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