CVE-2006-5646

no score yetEPSS 18%

sophos: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in 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 archive scanning is enabled, allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (memory corruption) via a CHM file with an LZX decompression header that specifies a Window_size of 0.

EPSS: 18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2006-11-01
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

sophos:anti-virus
sophos:endpoint_security

References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=452
http://secunia.com/advisories/22591
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html

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