4.3

CVE-2008-6903: sophos anti-virus Resource Management Errors

CVSS: 4.3v2.0MediumModified
Published 06-08-2009Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-6903 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in sophos anti-virus. EPSS estimates a 6.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
19/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
6.61%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 06-08-2009
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

6.61%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

94%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 6.61% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
6.61%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Sophos1 product
  • anti-virus4.7.18 | 4.9.18 | 4.37.0 | 6.4.5 | 7.0.5

1 vendor · 1 product

References

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