CVE-2008-1837 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash ClamAV by sending crafted RAR files, causing a denial of service.
- 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-2008-1837?
CVE-2008-1837 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
libclamunrar in ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted RAR files that trigger "memory problems," as demonstrated by the PROTOS GENOME test suite for Archive Formats.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1837?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Clam Anti-Virus Clamav.
How do I fix CVE-2008-1837?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-1837 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-2008-1837 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1837 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-v8q7-7qwm-fxx3.