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Sophos Anti-Virus SIT/CPIO File Processing Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA23325
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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