CVE-2008-6903

Sophos Anti-Virus < 7.6.3 - Denial of Service via Fuzzed CAB Archive

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/33177
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/50611.html
Patch vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021476
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122893252316489&w=2
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3458
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/50863
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32748

Scores

EPSS 0.0324
EPSS Percentile 87.3%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (6)
sophos/anti-virus 4.7.18 (2 CPE variants)
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
Published Aug 06, 2009
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026