CVE-2007-3645: freebsd libarchive
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2007-3645 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in freebsd libarchive. EPSS estimates a 3.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88.8% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1Timeline
- 15-07-2007PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
archive_read_support_format_tar.c in libarchive before 2.2.4 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via (1) an end-of-file condition within a tar header that follows a pax extension header or (2) a malformed pax extension header in an (a) PAX or a (b) TAR archive, which results in a NULL pointer dereference, a different issue than CVE-2007-3644.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
3.44%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
89%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 3.44% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Debian1 product
- libarchive< 2.2.4-1
Freebsd1 product
- libarchive≤ 2.2.3
2 vendors · 2 products
References
18 links- security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.ascVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FREEBSDPatch
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432924X Refsource CONFIRM
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- people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/X Refsource CONFIRM