Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-4578 - Numeric Errors vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus, Scanning Engine and Small Business Suite
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows and for Unix/Linux before 2.48.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted UPX packed file, resulting from an "integer cast around". NOTE: as of 20070828, the vendor says this is a DoS and the researcher says this allows code execution, but the researcher is reliable.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family | Windows |
NASL id | SOPHOS_2_48_0.NASL |
description | The version of Sophos Anti-Virus installed on the remote host reportedly contains several problems involving the processing of |
last seen | 2020-06-01 |
modified | 2020-06-02 |
plugin id | 25933 |
published | 2007-08-27 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/25933 |
title | Sophos Anti-Virus UPX and BZIP File Multiple Vulnerabilities |
code |
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References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26580
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3072
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018608
- http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_sophos_upx_infinite_loop_dos.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477720/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477864/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477882/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25428
- http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/28407.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2972