CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-4787

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2007-09-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-09-10
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:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The virus detection engine in Sophos Anti-Virus before 2.49.0 does not properly process malformed (1) CAB, (2) LZH, and (3) RAR files with modified headers, which might allow remote attackers to bypass malware detection.

Affected configurations

• sophos scanning engine 2.30.4 • sophos sophos anti-virus 3.4.6 • sophos sophos anti-virus 3.78 • sophos sophos anti-virus 3.78d • sophos sophos anti-virus 3.79 • sophos sophos anti-virus 3.80 • sophos sophos anti-virus 3.81 • sophos sophos anti-virus 3.82 • sophos sophos anti-virus 3.83 • sophos sophos anti-virus 3.84 • sophos sophos anti-virus 3.85 • sophos sophos anti-virus 3.86 • sophos sophos anti-virus 3.90 • sophos sophos anti-virus 3.91 • sophos sophos anti-virus 3.95 • sophos sophos anti-virus 3.96 • sophos sophos anti-virus 4.04 • sophos sophos anti-virus 4.05 • sophos sophos anti-virus 4.5.3 • sophos sophos anti-virus 4.5.4 • sophos sophos anti-virus 4.5.11 • sophos sophos anti-virus 4.5.12 • sophos sophos anti-virus 4.7.1 • sophos sophos anti-virus 4.7.2 • sophos sophos anti-virus 5.0.1 • sophos sophos anti-virus 5.0.2 • sophos sophos anti-virus 5.0.4 • sophos sophos anti-virus 5.1 • sophos sophos anti-virus 5.2.0 • sophos sophos anti-virus 5.2.1 • sophos sophos anti-virus 6.0 • sophos sophos anti-virus 6.5 • sophos sophos anti-virus 6.5.4 r2 • sophos sophos anti-virus 6.5.8 • sophos sophos anti-virus 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References