CVE-2005-3382

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Sophos
Status
Sophos Anti-virus
Vendor
CVE Published:
30 October 2005

Summary

Multiple interpretation error in Sophos 3.91 with the 2.28.4 engine allows remote attackers to bypass virus scanning via a file such as BAT, HTML, and EML with an "MZ" magic byte sequence which is normally associated with EXE, which causes the file to be treated as a safe type that could still be executed as a dangerous file type by applications on the end system, as demonstrated by a "triple headed" program that contains EXE, EML, and HTML content, aka the "magic byte bug."

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15189
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityelf.org/magicbyte.html
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityelf.org/magicbyteadv.html
x_refsource_MISC

EPSS Score

1% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database
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