Description
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.
Published: 2006-11-01
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 41.1% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Sophos Anti-virus Endpoint Security
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:55:54.135Z

Reserved: 2006-11-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5646

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Status : Modified

Published: 2006-11-01T15:07:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-5646

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