CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-4577
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-08-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
Sophos Anti-Virus for Unix/Linux before 2.48.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed BZip file that results in the creation of multiple Engine temporary files (aka a "BZip bomb").
Affected configurations
• sophos anti-virus 3.4.6
• sophos anti-virus 3.78
• sophos anti-virus 3.78d
• sophos anti-virus 3.79
• sophos anti-virus 3.80
• sophos anti-virus 3.81
• sophos anti-virus 3.82
• sophos anti-virus 3.83
• sophos anti-virus 3.84
• sophos anti-virus 3.85
• sophos anti-virus 3.86
• sophos anti-virus 3.90
• sophos anti-virus 3.91
• sophos anti-virus 3.95
• sophos anti-virus 3.96.0
• sophos anti-virus 4.03
• 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 5.0.9
• sophos anti-virus 5.1
• sophos anti-virus 5.2
• sophos anti-virus 5.2.1
• sophos anti-virus 6.5
• sophos scanning engine 2.30.4
• sophos scanning engine 2.40.2
• sophos small business suite 4.04
• sophos small business suite 4.05
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26580 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3073 securityreason.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018608 securitytracker.com
- http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_sophos_gzip_infinite_loop_dos.php www.nruns.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477727/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25428 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/28407.html www.sophos.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2972 www.vupen.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26580 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3073 securityreason.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018608 securitytracker.com
- http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_sophos_gzip_infinite_loop_dos.php www.nruns.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477727/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25428 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/28407.html www.sophos.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2972 www.vupen.com