CVE-2011-1779

CVE-2011-1779 describes multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libarchive versions 2.8.4 and 2.8.5, impacting products like FreeBSD that utilize this library. Attackers can exploit this by crafting malicious TAR archives or ISO9660 images, leading to a denial of service through application crashes and potentially other unspecified impacts. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.