Vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus
CVE-2005-1551
Sophos Anti-Virus 3.93 does not check downloaded files for viruses when they have only been written, which creates a race condition and may allow remote attackers to bypass virus protection if the file is executed before the antivirus starts on system reboot.
EPSS: 0.043 (90.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Sophos Sophos_anti-virus — versions 3.93
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)