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CVE-2008-3177
Sophos virus detection engine 2.75 on Linux and Unix, as used in Sophos Email Appliance, Pure Message for Unix, and Sophos Anti-Virus…
Medium5.0EPSS 5.1%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.1% · top 7.6% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- 1020462 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 30110 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2053 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- sophos-mime-dos(43703) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/42245.html?_log_from=rss (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31037 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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