CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-3177

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2008-07-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-07-15
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-16

Description

Sophos virus detection engine 2.75 on Linux and Unix, as used in Sophos Email Appliance, Pure Message for Unix, and Sophos Anti-Virus Interface (SAVI), allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (engine crash) via zero-length MIME attachments.

Affected configurations

• sophos es1000 • sophos es4000 • sophos sophos anti-virus • sophos sophos puremessage anti-virus

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References