CVE-2008-5050

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-11-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Off-by-one error in the get_unicode_name function (libclamav/vba_extract.c) in Clam Anti-Virus (ClamAV) before 0.94.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VBA project file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: through 0.94; 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.04, 0.05, 0.06 (+92)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-November/065530.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32663
http://secunia.com/advisories/32699
http://secunia.com/advisories/32765
http://secunia.com/advisories/32872
http://secunia.com/advisories/33016
http://secunia.com/advisories/33317
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-21.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4579

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