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Case File

CVE-2006-5646

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 17.55%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2006-11-01 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2006-5646
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
17.55%
Linux

Original Filing — NVD Description

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.