CVE-2008-1835

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-04-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to bypass the scanning enging via a RAR file with an invalid version number, which cannot be parsed by ClamAV but can be extracted by Winrar.

Affected products

Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: through 0.92.1; 0.15, 0.20, 0.21, 0.22, 0.23, 0.24 (+57)

References

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/29891
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://up2date.astaro.com/2008/08/up2date_asg_v7300_ga_released.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:088
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28784
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584

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