CVE-2010-4666

Published: Apr 13, 2012Modified: Apr 29, 2026

7.5

Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 6.4

Source: NVD

Description

Buffer overflow in libarchive 3.0 pre-release code allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted CAB file, which is not properly handled during the reading of Huffman code data within LZX compressed data.

Affected (1)

Products: Freebsd: Libarchive

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Freebsd Libarchive	Version 3.0

Related CWEs

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

References (4)

http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail?r=2842

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705849

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail?r=2842

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705849

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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