CVE-2010-4666: Freebsd Libarchive

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Freebsd Libarchive: version 3.0 only

Published 2012-04-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.