Vulnerability in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav
CVE-2008-1836
The rfc2231 function in message.c in libclamav in ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted message that produces a string that is not null terminated, which triggers a buffer over-read.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.035 (89.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 89.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.035 · newest: 0.035 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Clam Anti-Virus Clamav — versions 0.90, 0.90.1, 0.90_rc1.1
References
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00249.html (vendor-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-19.xml (vendor-advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html (vendor-advisory)
- up2date.astaro.com/2008/08/up2date_asg_v7300_ga_released.html
- secunia.com/advisories/29891 (third-party-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/28784 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584 (vdb-entry)