CVE-2010-4666

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-04-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in libarchive 3.0 pre-release code allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted CAB file, which is not properly handled during the reading of Huffman code data within LZX compressed data.

Affected products

FreeBSD Libarchive: 3.0

References

http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail?r=2842
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705849
http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail?r=2842
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705849

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