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CVE-2006-5646

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
01/11/2006
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:4.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:4.05:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:4.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:4.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:4.5.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:4.5.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:4.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:4.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:5.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:5.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:5.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:6.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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