PT-2008-6440 · Cisco · Clamav

Ilja Van Sprundel · Published 2008-12-03 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2008-5314

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ClamAV versions prior to 0.94.2

Description The issue is related to a stack consumption problem in the libclamav/special.c file, which can be triggered by a crafted JPEG file. This can cause a denial of service, leading to a daemon crash. The functions cli check jpeg exploit, jpeg check photoshop, and jpeg check photoshop 8bim are involved in this issue.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.94.2, update to version 0.94.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the processing of JPEG files until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5314

DSA-1680-1

Affected Products

Clamav

References · 28

• 🔥 https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1266 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/7330 · Exploit
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5314 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:239 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-21.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1680 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5314 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-684-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5314 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5314 · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/50363 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/01/8 · Note
• http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20081126.150241.55b1e092.en.html · Note