Denial of Service in Sophos Anti-Virus 5.0.1 via Bzip2 Archive with Large 'Extra Field Length' Value

CVE-2005-1530 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Sophos Anti-Virus 5.0.1, with "Scan inside archive files" enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption by infinite loop) via a Bzip2 archive with a large 'Extra field length' value.

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