CVE-2006-5647 (GCVE-0-2006-5647)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-11-01 15:00
Modified
2024-08-07 19:55
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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."
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