CVE-2006-5645 Information

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.

Reference

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=439 http://secunia.com/advisories/22591 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474683/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018450 http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239