01 Record
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 by infinite loop) via a Bzip2 archive with a large 'Extra field
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 6.16% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-07-19 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 21:51Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-05-12
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- fa5c098fe6637a78be2f70434c76d2363024e82b06784adc51e4ac8109415bf7
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com14270http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14270
- www.idefense.com20050714 Sophos Anti-Virus Zip File Handling DoS Vulnerabilityhttp://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=283&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=true
- securitytracker.com1014488http://securitytracker.com/id?1014488
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comsophos-bzip2-dos(21373)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21373