CVE-2008-3215

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-07-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

libclamav/petite.c in ClamAV before 0.93.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed Petite file that triggers an out-of-bounds memory access. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2713.

Affected products

Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: 0.88.2, 0.88.4, 0.88.5, 0.88.6, 0.88.7, 0.88.7-p0 (+13)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00006.html
http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20080707.155612.ad411b00.en.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31091
http://secunia.com/advisories/31437
http://secunia.com/advisories/31882
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-07.xml
http://svn.clamav.net/websvn/diff.php?repname=clamav-devel&path=/branches/0.93/libclamav/petite.c&rev=3920
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:166
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/08/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/15/1
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html

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