PT-2008-3366 · Cisco+1 · Clamav+1

Thierry Zoller · Published 2008-04-16 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-1835

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ClamAV versions prior to 0.93

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass the scanning engine by using a RAR file with an invalid version number. This file cannot be parsed by ClamAV but can be extracted by Winrar, thus potentially allowing malicious content to evade detection.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.93, update to version 0.93 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-1835

Affected Products

Clamav

Winrar

References · 15

• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:088 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1835 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00009.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-19.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31576 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31882 · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30328 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41874 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/28784 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29891 · Note
• http://up2date.astaro.com/2008/08/up2date_asg_v7300_ga_released.html · Note
• https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=541 · Note