Vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus
CVE-2006-5645
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 "Enabled scanning of archives" is set, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed RAR archive with an Archive Header section with the head_size and pack_size fields set to zero.
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: 0.178 (97.1th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.175 · newest: 0.178 · change: +0.003
Affected products
- Sophos Anti-Virus — versions 4.04, 4.05, 4.5.3
- Sophos Endpoint Security
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816 (vdb-entry)
- labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474683/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/22591 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)