CVE-2006-5646

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.

CVSS v2.0

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

EPSS

17.55% 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/2910

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2006-5645
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