CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-5646

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2006-11-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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-119

Description

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.

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 · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References