CVE-2011-1778 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail?r=3160 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/48034 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2413 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705849 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1507.html