CVE-2005-1530 in Anti-Virus

Summary

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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• Reservation: 05/12/2005
• Disclosure: 07/19/2005
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-1625 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-835 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 7.5
• EPSS: 0.05979
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-1530
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1530
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2005-1530/