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CVE-2006-5645: sophos anti-virus Resource Management Errors

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
Published 01-11-2006Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2006-5645 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in sophos anti-virus. EPSS estimates a 17.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
34/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
17.88%
0%100%
Medium · +0.37 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1exploit-database

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 0 · Duplicates 1
CVE-2007-5645

Timeline

  1. 01-11-2006
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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, when "Enabled scanning of archives" is set, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed RAR archive with an Archive Header section with the head_size and pack_size fields set to zero.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

17.88%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

97%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.37 pp

From 17.51% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
17.88%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • exploit-databasedosmultipleVerified

    Sophos / Trend Micro AntiVirus - '.RAR' File Denial of Service (PoC)

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Sophos2 products
  • 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
  • endpoint_security≤ 6.04

1 vendor · 2 products

References

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