CVE-2011-1778

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% 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 through 2.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TAR archive.

Affected products

FreeBSD Libarchive: through 2.8.5; 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.2.3, 2.3, 2.4 (+11)

References

http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail?r=3160
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48034
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2413
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705849
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1507.html
http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail?r=3160
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48034
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2413

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