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CVE-2006-5680 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/22723 CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22801 CVE
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive.asc CVEExploitVendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017199 CVE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30137 CVE

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
NVD-CWE-OtherWeakness Not in a Standard CWE Category[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
freebsd freebsd
6 stable

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6:stable:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

6 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-5680
NVD Published Date:
Nov 9, 2006
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]