CVE-2006-5647

Medium

Description

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."

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.4
Exploit probability—
ProductSophos Anti-virus
PublishedNov 1, 2006
First seenNov 1, 2006

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
sophos anti-virus4.04, 4.05, 4.5.3, 4.5.4, 4.5.11, 4.5.12, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.2.1, 6.0.4—
sophos endpoint_securityv ≤ 6.04—

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