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 Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freebsd | Freebsd | 6-stable (including) | 6-stable (including) |
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