CVE-2008-1836 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash ClamAV via a crafted message causing a buffer over-read in the rfc2231 function.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2008-1836?
CVE-2008-1836 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav, published on 16 Apr 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The rfc2231 function in message.c in libclamav in ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted message that produces a string that is not null terminated, which triggers a buffer over-read.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1836?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Clam Anti-Virus Clamav.
How do I fix CVE-2008-1836?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-1836 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
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-2008-1836 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1836 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 GHSA-2g4m-frjw-86jj.