CVE-2005-1530 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2005-1530

Sophos Anti-Virus 5.0.1, with "Scan inside archive files" enabled, allows...

Vulnerability Description

Sophos Anti-Virus 5.0.1, with "Scan inside archive files" enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption by infinite loop) via a Bzip2 archive with a large 'Extra field length' value.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

sophos anti-virus, sophos mailmonitor, sophos mailmonitor for notes domino, sophos puremessage anti-virus, sophos small business suite
Vulnerable Versions:
3.4.6, 3.78, 3.78d, 3.79, 3.80, 3.81, 3.82, 3.83, 3.84, 3.85, 3.86, 3.90, 3.91, 5.0.1, 2.0, 2.1, 4.6, 1.0

Timeline

Official Publish: July 19th, 2005
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.