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CVE-2006-5646

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

Description

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 Platforms

Sophos Anti-VirusSophos Endpoint Security

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References