CVE-2006-5647

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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed CHM file with a large name length in the CHM chunk header, aka "CHM name length memory consumption vulnerability."

References

http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609....
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http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239
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EPSS Score

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

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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