Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-4577

Title: Sophos Scanning Engine Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-4577.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Aug 28, 2007

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.56%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-4577: Sophos Anti-Virus for Unix/Linux before 2.48.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed BZip file that results in the creation of multiple Engine temporary files (aka a "BZip bomb").

Impacted Vendors

sophos 3

trend_micro 1

f-secure 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/26580 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3073 http://securitytracker.com/id?1018608 http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_sophos_gzip_infinite_loop_dos.php http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477727/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25428 http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/28407.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2972 http://secunia.com/advisories/26580 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3073 http://securitytracker.com/id?1018608 http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_sophos_gzip_infinite_loop_dos.php http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477727/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25428 http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/28407.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2972

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-4577 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 28, 2007 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.