CVE-2008-1835

N/A Unknown

Published: April 16, 2008 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to bypass the scanning enging via a RAR file with an invalid version number, which cannot be parsed by ClamAV but can be extracted by Winrar.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00009.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/29891

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/30328

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/31576

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/31882

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-19.xml

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://up2date.astaro.com/2008/08/up2date_asg_v7300_ga_released.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:088

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28784

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

US Government Resource

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41874

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=541

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html