CVE-2008-5314

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-12-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in libclamav/special.c in ClamAV before 0.94.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted JPEG file, related to the cli_check_jpeg_exploit, jpeg_check_photoshop, and jpeg_check_photoshop_8bim functions.

Affected products

Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: through 0.94.1; 0.70, 0.71, 0.72, 0.73, 0.74, 0.75 (+42)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00003.html
http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20081126.150241.55b1e092.en.html
http://osvdb.org/50363
http://secunia.com/advisories/32926
http://secunia.com/advisories/32936
http://secunia.com/advisories/33016
http://secunia.com/advisories/33195
http://secunia.com/advisories/33317
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-21.xml
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=86638&release_id=643134

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