CVE-2008-6904

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-08-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Sophos SAVScan 4.33.0 for Linux, and possibly other products and versions, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted files that have been packed with (1) armadillo, (2) asprotect, or (3) asprotectSKE.

Affected products

Sophos Anti-Virus: 4.7.18, 4.9.18, 4.37.0, 6.4.5, 7.0.5
Sophos Anti-Virus7.6.3: all versions

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122893252316489&w=2
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08015.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32748
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/50611.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52443
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122893252316489&w=2
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08015.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32748
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/50611.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52443

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