CVE-2008-1833

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-04-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in pe.c in libclamav in ClamAV 0.92.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted WWPack compressed PE binary.

Affected products

Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: 0.92.1

References

http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-20.txt
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=687
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/30328
http://secunia.com/advisories/31576
http://secunia.com/advisories/31882
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-19.xml
http://svn.clamav.net/svn/clamav-devel/trunk/ChangeLog

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