CVE-2006-5680

no score yetEPSS 1.6%

freebsd freebsd: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 75% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2006-11-09
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

freebsd:freebsd

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

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