CVE-2006-5645

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Sophos
Status
Anti-virus
Endpoint Security
Vendor
CVE Published:
1 November 2006

Summary

Sophos Anti-Virus and Endpoint Security before 6.0.5, Anti-Virus for Linux before 5.0.10, and other platforms before 4.11, when "Enabled scanning of archives" is set, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed RAR archive with an Archive Header section with the head_size and pack_size fields set to zero.

References

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018450
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609....
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

EPSS Score

14% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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