CVE-2006-5646
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)
Heap-based buffer overflow in 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 archive scanning is enabled, allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (memory corruption) via a CHM file with an LZX decompression header that specifies a Window_size of 0.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/2910⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=452http://secunia.com/advisories/22591http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.htmlhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239