CVE-2006-5645

Summary

CVECVE-2006-5645
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-11-01 15:07:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-17 21:44:00 UTC
DescriptionSophos 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-399

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.04 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.05 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.5.11 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.5.12 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.5.3 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.5.4 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.7.1 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.7.2 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 5.0.1 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 5.0.2 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 5.0.4 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 5.1 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 5.2 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 5.2.1 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 6.0.4 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.04 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.05 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.5.11 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.5.12 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.5.3 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.5.4 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.7.1 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 4.7.2 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 5.0.1 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 5.0.2 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 5.0.4 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 5.1 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 5.2 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 5.2.1 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 6.0.4 All All All
Application Sophos Endpoint Security All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Sophos Antivirus Multiple Denial of Service and Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
20061208 Multiple Vendor Antivirus RAR File Denial of Service Vulnerability IDEFENSE labs.idefense.com
eTrust Antivirus Bugs in Arclib Library Let Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
Advisory: Vulnerabilities reported by iDefense CONFIRM www.sophos.com
Sophos Anti-Virus RAR and CHM Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Sophos Anti-Virus Bugs in Processing Petite Archives, RAR Archives, and CHM Files Let Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker SECTRACK securitytracker.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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