CVE-2008-5314 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the ClamAV daemon by sending a crafted JPEG file, 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
- Available
What is CVE-2008-5314?
CVE-2008-5314 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav, published on 3 Dec 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-5314?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Clam Anti-Virus Clamav.
How do I fix CVE-2008-5314?
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-2008-5314 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-5314 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
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-2008-5314, GHSA-73rj-52cv-hrpx.