Sophos Anti-Virus CPIO Archive Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
ZDI-06-045: December 12th, 2006CVE ID
Affected Vendors
Affected Products
TippingPoint™ IPS Customer Protection
TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 4918. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS:Vulnerability Details
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Sophos Anti-Virus.
The specific flaw exists in the parsing of CPIO archives. When a long non-null terminated filename is processed by veex.dll, a stack overflow occurs. Exploitation is possible leading to remote code execution running under the SYSTEM context.
Vendor Response
Sophos has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:Disclosure Timeline
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2006-09-14 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2006-12-12 - Coordinated public release of advisory
Credit
This vulnerability was discovered by:-
Anonymous
