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CVE-2006-5647

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.4 EPSS 20.71%

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

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.4. It affects Linux. Its EPSS score suggests a 20.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-2006-5647
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.4
EPSS
20.71%
Linux

Original NVD 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 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."