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CVE-2006-5646

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Published: Nov 1, 2006Modified: Apr 23, 2026

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5.0
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 2.9
Source: NVD

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Sophos Anti-Virus and Endpoint Security before 6.0.5, Anti-Virus for Linux before 5.0.10, and other platforms before 4.11, when archive scanning is enabled, allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (memory corruption) via a CHM file with an LZX decompression header that specifies a Window_size of 0.

Affected (16)

Sophos
2 products
Anti Virus
Endpoint Security
Configuration A
16 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Sophos
Anti Virus
Version 4.04
Anti Virus
Version 4.05
Anti Virus
Version 4.5.11
Anti Virus
Version 4.5.12
Anti Virus
Version 4.5.3
Anti Virus
Version 4.5.4
Anti Virus
Version 4.7.1
Anti Virus
Version 4.7.2
Anti Virus
Version 5.0.1
Anti Virus
Version 5.0.2
Anti Virus
Version 5.0.4
Anti Virus
Version 5.1
Anti Virus
Version 5.2.1
Anti Virus
Version 5.2
Anti Virus
Version 6.0.4
Endpoint Security
Up to 6.04

Related CWEs

CWE-119
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

References (12)

Source: cve@mitre.org
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
Source: cve@mitre.org
Source: cve@mitre.org
Source: cve@mitre.org
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory

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