CVE-2006-5647

MediumCVSS 6.4/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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."

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.4/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Nov 1, 2006
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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