Security readout for executives and security teams
CVE-2008-1387 is a denial-of-service issue in ClamAV before 0.93. A specially crafted ARJ archive can make scanning consume excessive CPU, potentially slowing or hanging mail gateways, file upload pipelines, or security appliances that inspect archives. Exposure is most likely where legacy ClamAV engines or products embedding ClamAV scan untrusted archives, especially email attachments, uploaded files, or gateway traffic. Modern environments should verify whether any old distribution, appliance, or frozen container image still includes ClamAV before 0.93. Treat this as a legacy resilience issue. It is unlikely to justify emergency action in current patched environments, but any exposed legacy mail or file-scanning service should be remediated because attackers could degrade availability cheaply. Mitigation focus: Upgrade ClamAV to version 0.93 or a vendor-supported fixed package.; Check Linux distribution and appliance advisories for embedded ClamAV fixes.; Remove or replace unsupported systems still running pre-0.93 ClamAV..
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- clamav-arj-unspecified-dos(41822)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
- FEDORA-2008-3900CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
- https://www.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=897CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- FEDORA-2008-3420CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
- FEDORA-2008-3358CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
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