CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-6903
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-08-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows before 7.6.3, Anti-Virus for Windows NT/9x before 4.7.18, Anti-Virus for OS X before 4.9.18, Anti-Virus for Linux before 6.4.5, Anti-Virus for UNIX before 7.0.5, Anti-Virus for Unix and Netware before 4.37.0, Sophos EM Library, and Sophos small business solutions, when CAB archive scanning is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a "fuzzed" CAB archive file, as demonstrated by the OUSPG PROTOS GENOME test suite for Archive Formats.
Affected configurations
• sophos anti-virus 4.7.18
• sophos anti-virus 4.9.18
• sophos anti-virus 4.37.0
• sophos anti-virus 6.4.5
• sophos anti-virus 7.0.5
• sophos anti-virus7.6.3
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122893252316489&w=2 marc.info
- http://osvdb.org/50863 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33177 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html www.cert.fi
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08015.html Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32748 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021476 Patch
- http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/50611.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3458 Vendor Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122893252316489&w=2 marc.info
- http://osvdb.org/50863 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33177 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html www.cert.fi
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08015.html Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32748 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021476 Patch
- http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/50611.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3458 Vendor Advisory