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Sophos Anti-Virus SIT/CPIO File Processing Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory:	SA23325	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2006-12-13
Popularity:	7,898 views

Critical:	Highly critical
Impact:	System access
Where:	From remote
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

Software:	Sophos Anti-Virus 3.x Sophos Anti-Virus 4.x Sophos Anti-Virus 5.x Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 6.x

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CVE reference:	CVE-2006-6335

Description: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Sophos Anti-Virus, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. 1) A boundary error in veex.dll when processing CPIO archives can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a CPIO archive containing an overly long, non-NULL terminated filename. 2) A boundary error in veex.dll when parsing SIT archives can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a SIT archive containing a file with an overly long, non-NULL terminated filename. Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows execution of arbitrary code. Solution: Update to version 2.40 of the scanning engine. Provided and/or discovered by: Discovered by an anonymous person and reported via ZDI. Original Advisory: Sophos: http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/17340.html http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/21637.html ZDI: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-045.html http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-046.html

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