CVE-2006-5647

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-5647
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-11-01 15:07:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 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 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."

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.4 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

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

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 Endpoint Security All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Sophos Anti-Virus RAR and CHM Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Sophos Antivirus Multiple Denial of Service and Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 labs.idefense.com
Advisory: Vulnerabilities reported by iDefense af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.sophos.com
Sophos Anti-Virus Bugs in Processing Petite Archives, RAR Archives, and CHM Files Let Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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