Description
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: 2005-07-19
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 6.0% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-1533 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.
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Subscriptions

Sophos Sophos Anti-virus Sophos Mailmonitor Sophos Mailmonitor For Notes Domino Sophos Puremessage Anti-virus Sophos Small Business Suite
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:51:50.552Z

Reserved: 2005-05-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-1530

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-07-19T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-1530

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