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TITLE:
libarchive Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22723

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22723/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
libarchive 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/12548/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in libarchive, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when trying to skip
certain parts of the file. This can be exploited to cause an infinite
loop by tricking an application using libarchive to process a
specially crafted file.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch.
http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-06:24/libarchive.patch

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:24.libarchive.asc

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