Buffer overflow in Sophos Anti-Virus
CVE-2006-5647
Sophos Anti-Virus and Endpoint Security before 6.0.5, Anti-Virus for Linux before 5.0.10, and other platforms before 4.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed CHM file with a large name length in the CHM chunk header, aka "CHM name length memory consumption vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.211 (97.5th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 97.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.207 · newest: 0.211 · change: +0.004
Affected products
- Sophos Anti-Virus — versions 4.04, 4.05, 4.5.3
- Sophos Endpoint Security
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- 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)
- secunia.com/advisories/22591 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)