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CVE-2008-6903
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…
Medium4.3EPSS 6.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.6% · top 6.1% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08015.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 33177 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/50611.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1021476 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20081210 [IVIZ-08-015] Sophos Antivirus for Linux vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2008-3458 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 50863 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 32748 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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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