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CVE-2008-6903

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 6.6%EU EUVD

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.

Key facts

CVSS score
4.3 (v2.0)
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-399
EPSS score
6.6% (94th percentile)
In CISA KEV
No
In EU EUVD
Yes (EUVD-2008-6863)
Published
August 6, 2009
NVD last modified
June 16, 2026
Status
Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-6863 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus
  • sophos / anti-virus7.6.3

References

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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