Vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus
CVE-2005-1530
Sophos Anti-Virus 5.0.1, with "Scan inside archive files" enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption by infinite loop) via a Bzip2 archive with a large 'Extra field length' value.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.062 (93.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 93.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.062 · newest: 0.062 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Sophos Anti-Virus — versions 3.4.6, 3.78, 3.78d
- Sophos Mailmonitor — versions 2.0, 2.1
- Sophos Mailmonitor For Notes Domino
- Sophos Puremessage Anti-Virus — versions 4.6
- Sophos Small Business Suite — versions 1.0
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/14270 (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry)
- www.idefense.com/application/poi/display (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21373 (vdb-entry)