CVE-2008-5050: Clam Anti-Virus Clamav

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 8.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one error in the get_unicode_name function (libclamav/vba_extract.c) in Clam Anti-Virus (ClamAV) before 0.94.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VBA project file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: up to and including 0.94; version 0.01 only; version 0.02 only; version 0.03 only; version 0.04 only; version 0.05 only; …

Published 2008-11-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.