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.
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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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