VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-1530

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability6.16%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-07-19
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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