CVE-2006-0994: Sophos Anti-Virus

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 21.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple Sophos Anti-Virus products, including Anti-Virus for Windows 5.x before 5.2.1 and 4.x before 4.05, when cabinet file inspection is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a CAB file with "invalid folder count values," which leads to heap corruption.

Affected products

• Sophos Sophos Anti-Virus: after 4.00, before 4.05 (fixed in 4.05); from 5.0.0, before 5.2.1 (fixed in 5.2.1)

Published 2006-05-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.