CVE-2008-6903 (GCVE-0-2008-6903)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-08-06 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 11:49
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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