CVE-2006-5647 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2006-5647

Sophos Anti-Virus and Endpoint Security before 6.0.5, Anti-Virus for Linux...

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."

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

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

anti-virus, endpoint security
Vulnerable Versions:
4.04, 4.05, 4.5.3, 4.5.4, 4.5.11, 4.5.12, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.2.1, 6.0.4, 0

Timeline

Official Publish: November 1st, 2006
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.