FKIE_CVE-2006-5647

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-11-01 15:07 - Updated: 2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
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."
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=451
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/22591Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017132
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=451
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/22591Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
sophos anti-virus 4.04
sophos anti-virus 4.05
sophos anti-virus 4.5.3
sophos anti-virus 4.5.4
sophos anti-virus 4.5.11
sophos anti-virus 4.5.12
sophos anti-virus 4.7.1
sophos anti-virus 4.7.2
sophos anti-virus 5.0.1
sophos anti-virus 5.0.2
sophos anti-virus 5.0.4
sophos anti-virus 5.1
sophos anti-virus 5.2
sophos anti-virus 5.2.1
sophos anti-virus 6.0.4
sophos endpoint_security *
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