PT-2006-6354 · Sophos · Sophos Endpoint Security+2

Published 2006-11-01 · Updated 2011-03-07 · CVE-2006-5647

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Sophos Anti-Virus and Endpoint Security versions prior to 6.0.5 Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux versions prior to 5.0.10 Other Sophos platforms versions prior to 4.11

Description: The issue 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.

Recommendations: For Sophos Anti-Virus and Endpoint Security versions prior to 6.0.5, update to version 6.0.5 or later. For Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux versions prior to 5.0.10, update to version 5.0.10 or later. For other Sophos platforms versions prior to 4.11, update to version 4.11 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-5647

Affected Products

Sophos Anti-Virus

Sophos Anti-Virus For Linux

Sophos Endpoint Security

References · 8

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/2911 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5647 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22591 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/20816 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132 · Note
• http://sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html · Note
• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=451 · Note