7.5
HIGH
CVE-2010-4666
Apache Libarchive LZX Huffman Code Buffer Overflow Denial of Service
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.

INFO

Published Date :

April 13, 2012, 8:55 p.m.

Last Modified :

April 16, 2012, 4 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

6.4

Exploitability Score :

10.0
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2010-4666 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Freebsd libarchive
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail?r=2842
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705849

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Exploit Prediction

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0.66 }} 0.00%

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0.76312

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