How severe is CVE-2008-6903?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of MEDIUM with a CVSS score of 4.3 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2008-6903?

This is classified as CWE-399, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2008-6903 - MEDIUM Severity | CVSS 4.3

Vulnerability 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.

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