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, 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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2006-11-01

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Anti-virus (Sophos)
• Endpoint Security (Sophos)

References

• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=452
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22591
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816
• http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239