National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5645
Original release date:11/01/2006
Last revised:04/07/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-4239
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018450
External Source: BID
Name: 20816
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070726 RE: [CAID 35525, 35526]: CA Products Arclib Library Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017132
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22591
Type: Advisory
External Source: IDEFENSE
Name: 20061208 Multiple Vendor Antivirus RAR File Denial of Service Vulnerability
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)