CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6335

10.0 HIGH Published 2006-12-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-12-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Sophos Anti-Virus scanning engine before 2.40 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a SIT archive with a long filename that is not null-terminated, which triggers a heap-based overflow in veex.dll due to improper length calculation, and (2) a CPIO archive, with a long filename that is not null-terminated, which triggers a stack-based overflow in veex.dll.

Affected configurations

• sophos sophos anti-virus (<= 2.3)

References