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CVE-2007-4577

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
28/08/2007
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Sophos Anti-Virus for Unix/Linux before 2.48.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed BZip file that results in the creation of multiple Engine temporary files (aka a "BZip bomb").

Impact

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

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0
7.80
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:3.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:3.78:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:3.78d:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:3.79:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:3.80:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:3.81:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:3.82:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:3.83:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:3.84:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:3.85:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:3.86:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:3.90:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:3.91:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:3.95:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:3.96.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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