Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-4839 - Denial of Service and Memory Corruption vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus 5.1

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
sophos

Summary

Sophos Anti-Virus 5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a file that is compressed with Petite and contains a large number of sections.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Sophos
1