IT security experts have warned of a vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus which can potentially be exploited by malicious hackers to cause buffer overflows.

The problem affects users of Sophos Anti-Virus Small Business Edition and Sophos Anti-Virus versions prior to 3.96.0 and prior to 4.5.4, according to Secuni. Sophos said it has already provided a fix for these versions of its antivirus offerings.

Further patches are expected for Small Business Edition on all platforms, and within the next 14 days for the remaining versions.