CVE-2006-5646
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 17.9%EU EUVD
Heap-based buffer overflow in 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 archive scanning is enabled, allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (memory corruption) via a CHM file with an LZX decompression header that specifies a Window_size of 0.
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-119
- EPSS score
- 17.9% (97th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5631)
- 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-2006-5631 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected 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
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=452
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22591(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816
- http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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