CVE-2006-6335

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Sophos
Status
Sophos Anti-virus
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 December 2006

Summary

Multiple buffer overflows in Sophos Anti-Virus scanning engine before 2.40 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a SIT archive with a long filename that is not null-terminated, which triggers a heap-based overflow in veex.dll due to improper length calculation, and (2) a CPIO archive, with a long filename that is not null-terminated, which triggers a stack-based overflow in veex.dll.

References

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-046.html
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http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/17340...
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21563
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EPSS Score

12% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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