Denial of Service Vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus Products
CVE-2008-6903

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Sophos
Status
Anti-virus
Anti-virus7.6.3
Vendor
CVE Published:
6 August 2009

Summary

Certain versions of Sophos Anti-Virus products are vulnerable to a denial of service attack when CAB archive scanning is enabled. This vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers using specially crafted CAB archive files, leading to a segmentation fault. This issue affects various versions of Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows, OS X, Linux, UNIX, and related solutions, and can compromise the system integrity by disrupting normal operations.

References

http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-080...
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http://secunia.com/advisories/33177
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http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/50611...
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Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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