THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-6335
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-6335

Sophos Anti Virus vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
12.3%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Sophos
Affected product
Sophos Anti Virus
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2006-12-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 12.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-6335

  • Confirm whether Sophos Sophos Anti Virus is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-6335.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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