CVE-2006-5646 Information

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.

Reference

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=452 http://secunia.com/advisories/22591 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017132 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20816 http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/7609.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4239