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CVE-2008-6903

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
06/08/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:4.7.18:*:windows-nt:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:4.7.18:*:windows_9x:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:4.9.18:*:os_x:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:4.37.0:*:netware:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:6.4.5:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:7.0.5:*:unix:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus7.6.3:*:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools