CVE-2008-5314
Stack consumption vulnerability in libclamav/special.c in ClamAV before 0.94.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 8.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- ClamAV < 0.94.2 - JPEG Parsing Recursive Stack Overflow (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 7330dos, multiplepublished 3 Dec 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 7330 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.2% · top 5.1% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
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- 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)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-5291 (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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