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CVE-2006-5647

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.4 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 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 Platforms

Sophos Anti-VirusSophos Endpoint Security

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References