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…

published November 1, 2006

CVSS

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EPSS

18%

Percentile

97.2

In the wild

Unconfirmed

What it is

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.

The record

Technical detail

CVSS: Not scored
CVSS v4.0: Not supplied
EPSS: 0.17924 · 97.2th percentile
Published: 2006-11-01T15:00Z

EPSS history

Timeline

01 NOV 15:00Z
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…
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