Vulnerability record · CVE-2008-6903 · published 6 August 2009

CVE-2008-6903: Sophos anti-virus vulnerability

Sophos · Anti Virus

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.

4.3 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 6.6% · top 6.4% CWE-399 · CWE-399

4.3CVSS 2.0 base score

6.6%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

2Affected product versions listed by NVD

18References

16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Anti Virus Sophos

Anti Virus7.6.3 Sophos

References

Link	Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122893252316489&w=2
http://osvdb.org/50863
http://secunia.com/advisories/33177	Vendor Advisory
http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08015.html	Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32748
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021476	Patch
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/50611.html	PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3458	Vendor Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122893252316489&w=2
http://osvdb.org/50863
http://secunia.com/advisories/33177	Vendor Advisory
http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08015.html	Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32748
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021476	Patch
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/50611.html	PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3458	Vendor Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2008-6903), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.