PT-2008-6204 · Cisco · Clamav

Moritz Jodeit · Published 2008-11-13 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-5050

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Clam Anti-Virus (ClamAV) versions prior to 0.94.1

Description The issue is caused by an off-by-one error in the get unicode name function, located in libclamav/vba extract.c, which can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow when processing a crafted VBA project file. This can result in a denial of service (crash) or potentially allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.94.1, update to version 0.94.1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the processing of VBA project files until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5050

DSA-1680-1

Affected Products

Clamav

References · 29

• 🔥 http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-November/065530.html · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5050 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32207 · Patch
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-672-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5050 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5050 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32663 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:229 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5050 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-21.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00332.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1680 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00348.html · Vendor Advisory