ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ARJ archive, as demonstrated by…

Description

ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ARJ archive, as demonstrated by the PROTOS GENOME test suite for Archive Formats.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.4% · top 8.8% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (27)

• MDVSA-2008:088 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• clamav-arj-unspecified-dos(41822) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• FEDORA-2008-3900 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 20080415 clamav: Endless loop / hang with crafter arj, CVE-2008-1387 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• GLSA-200805-19 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2008-09-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• https://www.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=897 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://up2date.astaro.com/2008/08/up2date_asg_v7300_ga_released.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://int21.de/cve/CVE-2008-1387-clamav.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 29891 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• TA08-260A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
• 28784 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• ADV-2008-2584 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 31882 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 29975 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 29863 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 30328 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2008-3420 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 28782 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 30253 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 31576 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2008-1227 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c10/archive/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2008:024 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• FEDORA-2008-3358 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-20.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 08:17 UTC.