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CVE-2006-5645

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2006-11-01 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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 Platforms

Sophos Anti-VirusSophos Endpoint Security

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References