Description
Multiple buffer overflows in Sophos Anti-Virus scanning engine before 2.40 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a SIT archive with a long filename that is not null-terminated, which triggers a heap-based overflow in veex.dll due to improper length calculation, and (2) a CPIO archive, with a long filename that is not null-terminated, which triggers a stack-based overflow in veex.dll.
Published: 2006-12-12
Score: 10.0 Critical
EPSS: 15.2% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Sophos Sophos Anti-virus
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:19:35.253Z

Reserved: 2006-12-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-6335

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Status : Modified

Published: 2006-12-12T20:28:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2006-6335

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