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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-5314: ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-5314: ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/03/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-antivirus-clamav

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