CVE-2006-5646
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,...
- Published
- Nov 1, 2006
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Dec 10, 2006
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PModerate · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 97.1%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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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.
Sources
1Damian Put · multiple · Dec 10, 2006
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