Detections
Analytics
CVE-2006-5645
medium
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, 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.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018450
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474683/100/0/threaded
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132
http://secunia.com/advisories/22591
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=439