CVE-2007-4578

CVE-2007-4578 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows and for Unix/Linux before 2.48.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted UPX packed file, resulting from an "integer cast around". NOTE: as of 20070828, the vendor says this is a DoS and the researcher says this allows code execution, but the researcher is reliable.

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