CVE-2008-1387

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-04-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ARJ archive, as demonstrated by the PROTOS GENOME test suite for Archive Formats.

Affected products

Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: 0.90, 0.90.1, 0.90_rc1.1, 0.90_rc2, 0.90_rc3, 0.90rc1 (+2)

References

http://int21.de/cve/CVE-2008-1387-clamav.html
http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-20.txt
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00009.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29863
http://secunia.com/advisories/29891
http://secunia.com/advisories/29975
http://secunia.com/advisories/30253
http://secunia.com/advisories/30328
http://secunia.com/advisories/31576
http://secunia.com/advisories/31882
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-19.xml

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