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    CVE-2006-5645

    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.

    Published:Nov 1, 2006
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Nov 1, 2006
    EPSS Score:0.14755
    CVSS Score:5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Sophos
    Product
    Anti-virus
    Vendor
    Sophos
    Product
    Endpoint Security

    Exploits

    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2912

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High