Resource Management Errors Affecting clamav package, versions [,0.94.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
14.47% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CLAMAV-2381128
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Dec 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Dec 2008

CVE-2008-5314  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade clamav to version 0.94.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. Stack consumption vulnerability in libclamav/special.c in ClamAV before 0.94.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted JPEG file, related to the cli_check_jpeg_exploit, jpeg_check_photoshop, and jpeg_check_photoshop_8bim functions.

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