Sophos Anti-Virus UPX and BZIP File Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 25933

Synopsis

The remote Windows host has an application that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Sophos Anti-Virus installed on the remote host reportedly contains several problems involving the processing of 'UPX' and 'BZIP' files. If a remote attacker can cause a malicious file to be scanned by the affected application, these issues could be leveraged to crash the affected application, fill up space on the disk volume used for Engine temporary files, or possibly even execute arbitrary code.

Solution

Update to Sophos Anti-Virus engine version 2.48.0 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25933

File Name: sophos_2_48_0.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 8/27/2007

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:sophos:sophos_anti-virus

Required KB Items: Antivirus/Sophos/installed, Antivirus/Sophos/eng_ver

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4577, CVE-2007-4578

BID: 25428

CWE: 189, 399

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