ZDI-06-046: Sophos Anti-Virus SIT Archive Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

ZDI-06-046: Sophos Anti-Virus SIT Archive Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-046.html December 12, 2006 -- CVE ID: CVE-2006-6335 -- Affected Vendor: Sophos -- Affected Products: All versions of Sophos Anti-Virus v2.40 scanning engine --...

Sophos Anti-Virus SIT Archive Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Sophos Anti-Virus. The specific flaw exists in the parsing of SIT archives. When a long non-null terminated filename is processed by veex.dll, a heap overflow occurs due to the miscalculation of th...