CVE-2006-5647

EPSS 20.6%

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."

Affected products

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public PoCs found — 1

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References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=451 http://secunia.com/advisories/22591 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816 http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239