CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-5645
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-11-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
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 "Enabled scanning of archives" is set, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed RAR archive with an Archive Header section with the head_size and pack_size fields set to zero.
Affected configurations
• sophos anti-virus 4.04
• sophos anti-virus 4.05
• sophos anti-virus 4.5.3
• sophos anti-virus 4.5.4
• sophos anti-virus 4.5.11
• sophos anti-virus 4.5.12
• sophos anti-virus 4.7.1
• sophos anti-virus 4.7.2
• sophos anti-virus 5.0.1
• sophos anti-virus 5.0.2
• sophos anti-virus 5.0.4
• sophos anti-virus 5.1
• sophos anti-virus 5.2
• sophos anti-virus 5.2.1
• sophos anti-virus 6.0.4
• sophos endpoint security (<= 6.04)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=439 labs.idefense.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22591 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132 securitytracker.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474683/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018450 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html www.sophos.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239 Vendor Advisory
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=439 labs.idefense.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22591 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132 securitytracker.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474683/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018450 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html www.sophos.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239 Vendor Advisory