CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-3641

9.3 HIGH Published 2007-07-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-07-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

archive_read_support_format_tar.c in libarchive before 2.2.4 does not properly compute the length of a certain buffer when processing a malformed pax extension header, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) PAX or (2) TAR archive that triggers a buffer overflow.

Affected configurations

• freebsd libarchive (<= 2.2.3)

References