National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-6903

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/50611.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/50611.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021476

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021476

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08015.html

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08015.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-3458

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3458

External Source: BID

Name: 32748

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32748

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html

Hyperlink:http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33177

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33177

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 50863

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/50863

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20081210 [IVIZ-08-015] Sophos Antivirus for Linux vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122893252316489&w=2