CVE-2006-5647

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Sophos Anti-Virus and Endpoint Security before 6.0.5, Anti-Virus for Linux before 5.0.10, and other platforms before 4.1

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.".

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.4 EPSS 0.2848

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EPSS ≥ 0.10 - elevated exploitation probability
EPSS percentile: top 3% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
Public exploit or PoC is available

Sigma rules2 YARA rules0

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Weakness Classification

CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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Affected Products & Versions

sophos anti-virusall versions

sophos endpoint security<= 6.04

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Public Exploits & PoCs

dosSophos AntiVirus - '.CHM' Chunk Name Length Memory Corruption (PoC)verified

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Sigma Hunt Rules

Exact rules name this CVE ID. Product rules name an affected product in their title. Related rules cover techniques used by actors who exploited this CVE. Showing the most relevant matches; the complete related set is on the full drill-down.

producthighRelevant Anti-Virus Signature Keywords In Application Log

producthighKaspersky Endpoint Security Stopped Via CommandLine - Linux

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Scoring & Timeline

6.4

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

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v2 Vector

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

Published to NVD01 Nov 2006 · 03:07 PM

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=451

http://secunia.com/advisories/22591Vendor Advisory

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816

http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239Vendor Advisory

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