Vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus
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 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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.066 (93.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 93.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.066 · newest: 0.066 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Sophos Anti-Virus — versions 4.7.18, 4.9.18, 4.37.0
- Sophos Anti-Virus7.6.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08015.html (Patch)
- secunia.com/advisories/33177 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/50611.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (Patch, vdb-entry)
- www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3458 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- osvdb.org/50863 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/32748 (vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2008-6903?
- CVE-2008-6903 is a vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus, classified under CWE-399. Published 2009-08-06.
- Is CVE-2008-6903 known to be exploited?
- 8 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.