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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-3641

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CVE-2007-3641

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/35405

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html

ST
  1018379

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA26050
  Secunia Advisory: SA26062
  Secunia Advisory: SA26355
  Secunia Advisory: SA28377

MISC
  http://security.freebsd.org/patches/SA-07:05/libarchive.patch

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200708-03.xml

FREEBSD
  http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1455

CONFIRM
  http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432924

BID
  24885


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