Description
Multiple interpretation error in unspecified versions of Sophos Antivirus allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a malicious executable in a specially crafted RAR file with malformed central and local headers, which can still be opened by products such as Winrar and PowerZip, even though they are rejected as corrupted by Winzip and BitZipper.
Published: 2005-10-14
Score: 5.1 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-3215 Multiple interpretation error in unspecified versions of Sophos Antivirus allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a malicious executable in a specially crafted RAR file with malformed central and local headers, which can still be opened by products such as Winrar and PowerZip, even though they are rejected as corrupted by Winzip and BitZipper.
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Sophos Sophos Anti-virus
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T23:01:59.153Z

Reserved: 2005-10-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-3216

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-10-14T10:02:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-3216

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