Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 9, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2006-5680

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.

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Affected products

FreeBSD/FreeBSD
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6:stable:*:*:*:*:*:*
FreeBSD/Libarchivellm-fuzzy
Range: <FreeBSD 6-STABLE after 2006-09-05 and before 2006-11-08>
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/bsdtar&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 3.5.1-1.5

Patches

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References

security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive.ascnvdExploitVendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/22723nvd
secunia.com/advisories/22801nvd
securitytracker.com/idnvd
www.securityfocus.com/bid/20961nvd
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30137nvd

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