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medium 4.3

CVE-2008-5314 json

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

published 2008-12-03 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-5291

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.2%
EPSS 8.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • clamav Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.94.dfsg.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5314

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-5314 updated

clamav: DoS / crash via crafted jpeg image

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-7330)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

8.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-7330 ClamAV < 0.94.2 - JPEG Parsing Recursive Stack Overflow (PoC) dos, 2008-12-03
  • wwws.clamav.net https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1266 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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