PT-2005-2522 · Sophos · Sophos Anti-Virus

Published 2005-07-19 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2005-1530

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Sophos Anti-Virus version 5.0.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption by an infinite loop, by exploiting a Bzip2 archive with a large Extra field length value when the "Scan inside archive files" option is enabled.

Recommendations For Sophos Anti-Virus version 5.0.1, as a temporary workaround, consider disabling the "Scan inside archive files" option until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-1530

Affected Products

Sophos Anti-Virus

References · 5

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/14270 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1530 · Security Note
• http://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=283&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=true · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21373 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014488 · Note