6.4
MEDIUM
CVE-2006-5647
Sophos Anti-Virus and Endpoint Security Denial of Service and Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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."

INFO

Published Date :

Nov. 1, 2006, 3:07 p.m.

Last Modified :

March 7, 2011, 5 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

4.9

Exploitability Score :

10.0
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2006-5647 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Sophos anti-virus
2 Sophos endpoint_security
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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

13.35 }} -0.25%

score

0.95098

percentile

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