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CVE-2005-1530

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2005-07-19 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Sophos Anti-Virus 5.0.1, with "Scan inside archive files" enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption by infinite loop) via a Bzip2 archive with a large 'Extra field length' value.

Affected Platforms

Sophos Sophos MailmonitorSophos Sophos Mailmonitor For Notes DominoSophos Sophos Anti-VirusSophos Sophos Small Business SuiteSophos Sophos Puremessage Anti-Virus

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References