CVE-2006-5647
N/A
Published: November 1, 2006 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:31 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorAnti VirusEndpoint Security
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 21%
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."
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
References (6)
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE
Source: [email protected]
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=451Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/22591x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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