Vulnerabilities > Sophos > Critical

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2008-12-12 CVE-2008-5541 Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus 4.33.0
Sophos Anti-Virus 4.33.0, when Internet Explorer 6 or 7 is used, allows remote attackers to bypass detection of malware in an HTML document by placing an MZ header (aka "EXE info") at the beginning, and modifying the filename to have (1) no extension, (2) a .txt extension, or (3) a .jpg extension, as demonstrated by a document containing a CVE-2006-5745 exploit.
network
sophos microsoft CWE-20
critical
9.3
2006-12-12 CVE-2006-6335 Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus 2.3
Multiple buffer overflows in Sophos Anti-Virus scanning engine before 2.40 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a SIT archive with a long filename that is not null-terminated, which triggers a heap-based overflow in veex.dll due to improper length calculation, and (2) a CPIO archive, with a long filename that is not null-terminated, which triggers a stack-based overflow in veex.dll.
network
low complexity
sophos
critical
10.0