Stack consumption vulnerability in libclamav/special.c in ClamAV before 0.94.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

8.2% · top 5.1% of all CVEs (4 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
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (24)

• 32936 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 7330 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• 33195 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• USN-684-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 33937 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• DSA-1680 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 32926 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 1021296 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• ADV-2008-3311 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 33016 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2009-02-12 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• [clamav-announce] 20081126 announcing ClamAV 0.94.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 50363 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• GLSA-200812-21 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• clamav-special-dos(46985) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• ADV-2009-0422 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20081201 CVE request: clamav 0.94.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• MDVSA-2008:239 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=86638&release_id=643134 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2008:028 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 32555 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 33317 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1266 (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, 10:49 UTC.