National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0994

Overview

Multiple Sophos Anti-Virus products, including Anti-Virus for Windows 5.x before 5.2.1 and 4.x before 4.05, when cabinet file inspection is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a CAB file with "invalid folder count values," which leads to heap corruption.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Solution

The vendor has issued a fixed version}

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-012.html

Hyperlink:http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-012.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-1730

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1730

External Source: BID

Name: 17876

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17876

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060508 ZDI-06-012: Sophos Anti-Virus CAB Unpacking Code Execution Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/433272/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016041

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016041

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20028

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20028

External Source: XF

Name: sophos-cab-parsing-bo(26305)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26305

External Source: SREASON

Name: 869

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/869

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20060508 ZDI-06-012: Sophos Anti-Virus CAB Unpacking Code Execution Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-May/045897.html