CVE-2008-6903

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2008-6903 · Published 06/08/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-6903 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting anti-virus (sophos).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.6%, higher than 93.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
anti-virus sophos	`= 4.37.0= 4.7.18= 4.9.18= 6.4.5= 7.0.5`	No fix yet

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

marc.info
osvdb.org/50863
secunia.com/advisories/33177 · Vendor Advisory
cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html
ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08015.html · Patch
securityfocus.com/bid/32748
securitytracker.com/id · Patch
sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/50611.html · Patch
vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3458 · Vendor Advisory

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Affected versions

Patched versions

anti-virus

sophos

= 4.37.0= 4.7.18= 4.9.18= 6.4.5= 7.0.5

No fix yet

Description

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