{"cve":"CVE-2006-5680","nvd":{"published":"2006-11-09T00:07:00.000","modified":"2026-06-16T22:31:39.943","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"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"],"products":["freebsd:freebsd"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:43:14.363260067+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2006-5680","score":0.01591,"percentile":0.75669,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}