CVE-2006-5680 — 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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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

Published Nov 9, 2006

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.59%

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.59% 0.01587

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01587

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	1.59% (0.01587)	74.73th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.57% (0.01575)	72.16th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.76% (0.00756)	71.55th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.54% (0.00542)	78.09th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 22, 2024	0.77% (0.00768)	81.23th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Oct 20, 2023	0.77% (0.00768)	79.21th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Aug 5, 2023	0.91% (0.00906)	80.67th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.77% (0.00765)	78.36th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.11% (0.01108)	55.18th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.11% (0.01108)	53.57th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.11% (0.01108)	51.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.11% (0.01108)	29.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (6)

http://secunia.com/advisories/22723
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22801
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive.asc
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDExploitVendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017199
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20961
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30137
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/22723		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22801		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive.asc		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDExploitVendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017199		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20961		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30137		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner freebsd

Published Nov 9, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Nov 3, 2006

Link CVE-2006-5680

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2006-5680

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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