CVE-2006-5647

no score yetEPSS 21%

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."

EPSS: 21% 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=451
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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