CVE-2010-4666

high

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.

References

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-04-13

Updated: 2012-04-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H