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CVE-2006-6335

Published: Dec 12, 2006

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

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Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Sophos Anti-Virus scanning engine before 2.40 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a SIT archive with a long filename that is not null-terminated, which triggers a heap-based overflow in veex.dll due to improper length calculation, and (2) a CPIO archive, with a long filename that is not null-terminated, which triggers a stack-based overflow in veex.dll.

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

References

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-046.html

x_refsource_MISC

http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/17340.html

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vdb-entry

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20061212 ZDI-06-045: Sophos Anti-Virus CPIO Archive Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

mailing-list

x_refsource_BUGTRAQ

sophos-sit-bo(30852)

vdb-entry

x_refsource_XF

20061212 ZDI-06-046: Sophos Anti-Virus SIT Archive Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

mailing-list

x_refsource_BUGTRAQ

vdb-entry

x_refsource_VUPEN

third-party-advisory

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sophos-cpio-bo(30851)

vdb-entry

x_refsource_XF

http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/21637.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-045.html

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