CVE-2006-5645

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 18%

from disclosure to weapon39 days

Published on NVDNov 1

1st PoC+39d

exploitation probability

18%top 3% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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 "Enabled scanning of archives" is set, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed RAR archive with an Archive Header section with the head_size and pack_size fields set to zero.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/2912

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References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=439 http://secunia.com/advisories/22591 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474683/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018450 http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239