CVE-2006-5647

Sophos Anti-Virus and Endpoint Security before 6.0.5, Anti-Virus for Linux before 5.0.10, and other platforms before 4.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed CHM file with a large name length in the CHM chunk header, aka "CHM name length memory consumption vulnerability."

CVSS v2.0 NVD

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

EPSS

21.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 98th percentile

Published

2006-11-01

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2911

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