CVE-2007-4577

2007-08-2818:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

AI Score

6.6

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.044

Percentile

92.5%

JSON

Sophos Anti-Virus for Unix/Linux before 2.48.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed BZip file that results in the creation of multiple Engine temporary files (aka a “BZip bomb”).

References

secunia.com/advisories/26580

securityreason.com/securityalert/3073

securitytracker.com/id?1018608

www.nruns.com/security_advisory_sophos_gzip_infinite_loop_dos.php

www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477727/100/0/threaded

www.securityfocus.com/bid/25428

www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/28407.html

www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2972