CVE-2008-1389

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-09-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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."

Affected products

Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: through 0.93.3; 0.11, 0.12, 0.13, 0.14, 0.14-pre, 0.15 (+61)

References

http://int21.de/cve/CVE-2008-1389-clamav-chd.html
http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-22.txt
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31725
http://secunia.com/advisories/31906
http://secunia.com/advisories/31982
http://secunia.com/advisories/32030
http://secunia.com/advisories/32222
http://secunia.com/advisories/32699
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-18.xml
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=86638&release_id=623661

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