CVE-2008-6903

high

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

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3458

http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/50611.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021476

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32748

http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08015.html

http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/33177

http://osvdb.org/50863

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122893252316489&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-08-06

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0087