CVE-2007-3644

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2007-3644 · Published 14/07/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-3644 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting libarchive (freebsd).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.9%, higher than 90.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libarchive freebsd	`≤ 2.2.3`	No fix yet

Description

archive_read_support_format_tar.c in libarchive before 2.2.4 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via (1) an end-of-file condition within a pax extension header or (2) a malformed pax extension header in an (a) PAX or a (b) TAR archive.

References

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
osvdb.org/38093
osvdb.org/38094
people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive
secunia.com/advisories/26050 · Patch
secunia.com/advisories/26062 · Patch
secunia.com/advisories/26355
secunia.com/advisories/28377
security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc · Vendor Advisory
security.freebsd.org/patches/SA-07:05/libarchive.patch · Patch
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200708-03.xml
debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1455
kb.cert.org/vuls/id/970849 · US Government Resource
novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html
securityfocus.com/bid/24885

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