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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…
High7.8EPSS 5.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
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").
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.5% · top 7.1% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- ADV-2007-2972 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 25428 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 26580 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 3073 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/28407.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20070824 n.runs-SA-2007.026 - Sophos Antivirus BZip parsing Infinite Loop Advisory (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_sophos_gzip_infinite_loop_dos.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1018608 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- 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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