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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-07T20:19:35.253Z

Reserved: 2006-12-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-6335

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-12-12T20:28:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2006-6335

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