CVE-2008-1389 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the ClamAV antivirus engine by submitting a malformed CHM file, requiring user interaction to process the file.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2008-1389?
CVE-2008-1389 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav, published on 4 Sep 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
libclamav/chmunpack.c in the chm-parser in ClamAV before 0.94 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed CHM file, related to an "invalid memory access."
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1389?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Clam Anti-Virus Clamav.
How do I fix CVE-2008-1389?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2008-1389 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1389 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav
- CVE-2008-1100 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2008-0318 Integer overflow in n/a
- CVE-2007-6337 Unspecified vulnerability in the bzip2 decompression algorithm in nsis/bzlib_private.h in ClamAV before 0.92 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors.
- CVE-2007-3023 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2005-3587 Memory corruption in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1389, GHSA-r2w2-7wgr-pq2v.