Clamav 0.94.1 and prior [Medium]

By Security Team on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 in Security Notifications | Related Software Packages:

Affects:

  • Clamav 0.94.1 and prior [Medium]

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.

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CVE Identifier: CVE-2008-5314
Severity: Medium

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