CVE-2006-5645

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 "Enabled scanning of archives" is set, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed RAR archive with an Archive Header section with the head_size and pack_size fields set to zero.

CVSS v2.0 NVD

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

17.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 97th percentile

Published

2006-11-01

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2912

Security advisories

• http://secunia.com/advisories/22591
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry