CVE-2006-5680 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause a denial of service via CPU exhaustion by providing a malformed archive to applications using the libarchive library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2006-5680?
CVE-2006-5680 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd, published on 9 Nov 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-5680?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Freebsd Freebsd.
How do I fix CVE-2006-5680?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2006-5680 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-5680 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Freebsd Freebsd
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2006-5680, GHSA-9qcr-cp56-22qc.