CVE-2011-1778: Freebsd Libarchive

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in libarchive through 2.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TAR archive.

Affected products

• Freebsd Libarchive: up to and including 2.8.5; version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.2.3 only; version 2.3 only; …

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