Vulnerabilities > Sophos > Scanning Engine > Medium

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2014-02-10 CVE-2014-1213 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability in Sophos Scanning Engine and Sophos Anti-Virus
Sophos Anti-Virus engine (SAVi) before 3.50.1, as used in VDL 4.97G 9.7.x before 9.7.9, 10.0.x before 10.0.11, and 10.3.x before 10.3.1 does not set an ACL for certain global and session objects, which allows local users to bypass anti-virus protection, cause a denial of service (resource consumption, CPU consumption, and eventual crash) or spoof "ready for update" messages by performing certain operations on mutexes or events including (1) DataUpdateRequest, (2) MmfMutexSAV-****, (3) MmfMutexSAV-Info, (4) ReadyForUpdateSAV-****, (5) ReadyForUpdateSAV-Info, (6) SAV-****, (7) SAV-Info, (8) StateChange, (9) SuspendedSAV-****, (10) SuspendedSAV-Info, (11) UpdateComplete, (12) UpdateMutex, (13) UpdateRequest, or (14) SophosALMonSessionInstance, as demonstrated by triggering a ReadyForUpdateSAV event and modifying the UpdateComplete, UpdateMutex, and UpdateRequest objects.
local
low complexity
sophos CWE-264
5.6
2007-09-10 CVE-2007-4787 Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Sophos Scanning Engine and Sophos Anti-Virus
The virus detection engine in Sophos Anti-Virus before 2.49.0 does not properly process malformed (1) CAB, (2) LZH, and (3) RAR files with modified headers, which might allow remote attackers to bypass malware detection.
network
low complexity
sophos CWE-20
5.0
2007-08-28 CVE-2007-4578 Numeric Errors vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus, Scanning Engine and Small Business Suite
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".
network
sophos CWE-189
6.8