CVE-2006-5647

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."

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.4 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=451
• 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