CVE-2008-5314

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-7330 dos multiple verified

ilja van sprundel · 2008-12-03

ClamAV < 0.94.2 - JPEG Parsing Recursive Stack Overflow (PoC)

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.94.dfsg.2-1`
sid	Fixed	`0.94.dfsg.2-1`
forky	Fixed	`0.94.dfsg.2-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.94.dfsg.2-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.94.dfsg.2-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5314

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