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CVE-2006-5645

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 17.9%EU EUVD

Sophos Anti-Virus and Endpoint Security before 6.0.5, Anti-Virus for Linux before 5.0.10, and other platforms before 4.11, when "Enabled scanning of archives" is set, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed RAR archive with an Archive Header section with the head_size and pack_size fields set to zero.

Key facts

CVSS score
5.0 (v2.0)
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-399
EPSS score
17.9% (97th percentile)
In CISA KEV
No
In EU EUVD
Yes (EUVD-2006-5630)
Published
November 1, 2006
NVD last modified
June 16, 2026
Status
Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5630 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / endpoint security

References

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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