CVE-2006-5646: Buffer Overflow
First published: Wed Nov 01 2006(Updated: )
Heap-based buffer overflow in 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 archive scanning is enabled, allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (memory corruption) via a CHM file with an LZX decompression header that specifies a Window_size of 0.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Sophos Anti-virus | =4.04 | |
| Sophos Anti-virus | =5.2 | |
| Sophos Anti-virus | =5.0.2 | |
| Sophos Anti-virus | =4.5.12 | |
| Sophos Endpoint Security | <=6.04 | |
| Sophos Anti-virus | =4.5.11 | |
| Sophos Anti-virus | =4.7.1 | |
| Sophos Anti-virus | =4.7.2 | |
| Sophos Anti-virus | =5.0.4 | |
| Sophos Anti-virus | =5.2.1 | |
| Sophos Anti-virus | =4.05 | |
| Sophos Anti-virus | =4.5.3 | |
| Sophos Anti-virus | =4.5.4 | |
| Sophos Anti-virus | =6.0.4 | |
| Sophos Anti-virus | =5.1 | |
| Sophos Anti-virus | =5.0.1 |
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- vendor/sophos
- canonical/sophos anti-virus
- version/sophos anti-virus/4.04
- version/sophos anti-virus/5.2
- version/sophos anti-virus/5.0.2
- version/sophos anti-virus/4.5.12
- canonical/sophos endpoint security
- version/sophos endpoint security/6.04
- version/sophos anti-virus/4.5.11
- version/sophos anti-virus/4.7.1
- version/sophos anti-virus/4.7.2
- version/sophos anti-virus/5.0.4
- version/sophos anti-virus/5.2.1
- version/sophos anti-virus/4.05
- version/sophos anti-virus/4.5.3
- version/sophos anti-virus/4.5.4
- version/sophos anti-virus/6.0.4
- version/sophos anti-virus/5.1
- version/sophos anti-virus/5.0.1