CVE - CVE-2006-5647

CVE-ID
CVE-2006-5647	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings
Description
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
Note: References are provided for the convenience of the reader to help distinguish between vulnerabilities. The list is not intended to be complete.
IDEFENSE:20061208 Sophos Antivirus CHM Chunk Name Length Memory Corruption Vulnerability URL:http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=451 CONFIRM:http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html BID:20816 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816 VUPEN:ADV-2006-4239 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239 SECTRACK:1017132 URL:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132 SECUNIA:22591 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/22591
Assigning CNA
N/A
Date Entry Created
20061101	Disclaimer: The entry creation date may reflect when the CVE-ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20061101)
Votes (Legacy)

Comments (Legacy)

Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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