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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5645
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CVE-2006-5645

Description:
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 "Enabled scanning of archives" is set, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed RAR archive with an Archive Header section with the head_size and pack_size fields set to zero.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

ST
  1017132
  1018450

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA22591

IDEFENSE
  http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=439

CONFIRM
  http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/474683/100/0/threaded

BID
  20816


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