CVE-2006-5646: sophos anti-virus

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2006-5646 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in sophos anti-virus. EPSS estimates a 17.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

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

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in 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 archive scanning is enabled, allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (memory corruption) via a CHM file with an LZX decompression header that specifies a Window_size of 0.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.