CVE-2008-6903: Sophos Anti-Virus

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 6.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Sophos Anti-Virus: version 4.7.18 only; version 4.9.18 only; version 4.37.0 only; version 6.4.5 only; version 7.0.5 only
• Sophos Anti-VIRUS7.6.3: any version

Published 2009-08-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.