A vulnerability was identified in multiple Sophos products, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an error when processing Zip files compressed using the BZIP2 algorithm and containing a specially crafted "Extra field length" value, which could be exploited to cause a denial of service by sending a malicious file in an e-mail message to a vulnerable application.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by iDEFENSE
ChangeLog
2005-07-15 : Initial release
2005-07-21 : Updated "Affected Products"
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