Multiple Sophos Products MIME Attachments Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	30110
Class:	Unknown
CVE:	CVE-2008-3177
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jul 09 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:27PM
Credit:	This issue was disclosed by Sophos.
Vulnerable:	Sophos Sophos Anti-Virus Interface (SAVI) 0 Sophos Pure Message for UNIX 0 Sophos Email Appliance 0
Not Vulnerable:

Multiple Sophos Products MIME Attachments Denial of Service Vulnerability

Multiple Sophos Products are prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability when scanning certain MIME attachments.

Attackers can leverage this issue to cause multiple terminations of the affected products and deny service to legitimate users.

NOTE: The vendor states that this issue occurs only when the applications are running on Linux or UNIX.

Sophos Email Appliance and Pure Message for UNIX instances that are using 4.30 virus data/2.74 engine are affected.

The Sophos Anti-Virus Interface (SAVI) is also affected.

Multiple Sophos Products MIME Attachments Denial of Service Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Multiple Sophos Products MIME Attachments Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor addressed this issue for Sophos Email Appliance and Pure Message for Unix by automatically rolling back to 4.30 virus data/2.7 engine. SAVI is being updated through the automatic release of virus data.

Multiple Sophos Products MIME Attachments Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• Sophos Homepage (Sophos)
  
• Advisory: Unexpected terminations of selected Sophos products by zero-byte MIME (Sophos)