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CVE-2005-1530
Sophos Anti-Virus 5.0.1, with "Scan inside archive files" enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption…
Medium5.0EPSS 6.2%
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- mitre
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.2% · top 6.5% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- 14270 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20050714 Sophos Anti-Virus Zip File Handling DoS Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- 1014488 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- sophos-bzip2-dos(21373) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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