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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" …

Public exploit code

Working exploit or proof of concept code has been published for this vulnerability. Treat unpatched systems as at risk.

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
SophosAnti-Virus
Versions 4.04, 4.05, 4.5.3, 4.5.4, 4.5.11, 4.5.12
SophosEndpoint Security
through 6.04

Weakness classification

CWE-399

References