VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-5647

CVSS score6.4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability21.14%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-11-01
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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."

Weakness classification

  • CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Primary references