Sophos Anti-Virus 5.0.1, with "Scan inside archive files" enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption by infinite loop) via a Bzip2 archive with a large 'Extra field length' value.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-1533 Sophos Anti-Virus 5.0.1, with "Scan inside archive files" enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption by infinite loop) via a Bzip2 archive with a large 'Extra field length' value.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:51:50.552Z

Reserved: 2005-05-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-1530

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2005-07-19T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2005-1530

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