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CVE-2006-5647

Sophos Anti-Virus and Endpoint Security before 6.0.5, Anti-Virus for Linux before 5.0.10, and other platforms before 4.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed CHM file with a large name length in the CHM chunk header, aka "CHM name length memory consumption vulnerability."

Published

2006-11-01T15:07:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.4 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact: PARTIAL
Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

4.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-119
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application sophos anti-virus 4.04 Yes
Application sophos anti-virus 4.05 Yes
Application sophos anti-virus 4.5.3 Yes
Application sophos anti-virus 4.5.4 Yes
Application sophos anti-virus 4.5.11 Yes
Application sophos anti-virus 4.5.12 Yes
Application sophos anti-virus 4.7.1 Yes
Application sophos anti-virus 4.7.2 Yes
Application sophos anti-virus 5.0.1 Yes
Application sophos anti-virus 5.0.2 Yes
Application sophos anti-virus 5.0.4 Yes
Application sophos anti-virus 5.1 Yes
Application sophos anti-virus 5.2 Yes
Application sophos anti-virus 5.2.1 Yes
Application sophos anti-virus 6.0.4 Yes
Application sophos endpoint_security ≤ 6.04 Yes
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