CVE-2005-3382
sophos sophos anti-virus: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Multiple interpretation error in Sophos 3.91 with the 2.28.4 engine allows remote attackers to bypass virus scanning via a file such as BAT, HTML, and EML with an "MZ" magic byte sequence which is normally associated with EXE, which causes the file to be treated as a safe type that could still be executed as a dangerous file type by applications on the end system, as demonstrated by a "triple headed" program that contains EXE, EML, and HTML content, aka the "magic byte bug."
- EPSS
- 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- sophos:sophos_anti-virus