CVE-2006-5646

Currently unrated

Key Information:

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

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in 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 archive scanning is enabled, allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (memory corruption) via a CHM file with an LZX decompression header that specifies a Window_size of 0.

References

http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609....
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

EPSS Score

31% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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