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CVE-2006-5647

Published: Nov 1, 2006

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

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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."

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

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

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20061208 Sophos Antivirus CHM Chunk Name Length Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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