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Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Improper boundary checks in petite.c in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.87.1 allows attackers to perform unknown attacks via unknown vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

unsp.c in ClamAV before 0.90.3 and 0.91 before 0.91rc1 does not properly calculate the end of a certain buffer, with unknown impact and remote attack vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in the cliscanpe function in libclamav (libclamav/pe.c) for ClamAV 0.92 and 0.92.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Upack PE file.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow, Integer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Integer overflow in the cliscanpe function in libclamav in ClamAV before 0.92.1, as used in clamd, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Petite packed PE file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Unspecified vulnerability in the bzip2 decompression algorithm in nsis/bzlibprivate.h in ClamAV before 0.92 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.3
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Off-by-one error in the getunicodename function (libclamav/vbaextract.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.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The OLE2 unpacker in clamd in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.87-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a DOC file with an invalid property tree, which triggers an infinite recursion in the ole2walkpropertytree function.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

File descriptor leak in the PDF handler in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.6
OS Command Injection
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

clamav-milter in ClamAV before 0.91.2, when run in black hole mode, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters that are used in a certain popen call, involving the "recipient field of sendmail."

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Buffer overflow in libclamav/upx.c in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.87 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted UPX packed executable.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Format string vulnerability in clamav-milter for Clam AntiVirus 0.60 through 0.60p, and other versions before 0.65, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the email address argument of a "MAIL FROM" command.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The filecopy function in misc.c in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.85, on Mac OS, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a virus in a filename that contains shell metacharacters, which are not properly handled when HFS permissions prevent the file from being deleted and ditto is invoked.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The FSG unpacker (fsg.c) in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.80 through 0.87 allows remote attackers to cause "memory corruption" and execute arbitrary code via a crafted FSG 1.33 file.

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Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Gibraltar Firewall 2.2 and earlier, when using the ClamAV update to 0.81 for Squid, uses a defunct ClamAV method to scan memory for viruses, which does not return an error code and prevents viruses from being detected.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Integer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) TNEF, (2) CHM, or (3) FSG file format processors in libclamav for Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.86.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to gain privileges via a crafted e-mail message.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Heap-based buffer overflow in libclamav/upx.c in Clam Antivirus (ClamAV) before 0.88 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted UPX files.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow, Integer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Integer overflow in ClamAV 0.88.1 and 0.88.4, and other versions before 0.88.5, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (scanning service crash) and execute arbitrary code via a crafted Portable Executable (PE) file that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow when less memory is allocated than expected.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Integer signedness error in the (1) cabunstore and (2) cabextract functions in libclamav/cab.c in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.90.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted CHM file that contains a negative integer, which passes a signed comparison and leads to a stack-based buffer overflow.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Clam AntiVirus ClamAV before 0.90 does not close open file descriptors under certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption and failed scans) via CAB archives with a cabinet header record length of zero, which causes a function to return without closing a file descriptor.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Heap-based buffer overflow in pe.c in libclamav in ClamAV 0.92.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted WWPack compressed PE binary.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow, Integer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Integer overflow in libclamav in ClamAV before 0.92 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted MEW packed PE file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Heap-based buffer overflow in spin.c in libclamav in ClamAV 0.92.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PeSpin packed PE binary with a modified length value.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Code Injection
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Unspecified vulnerability in ClamAV 0.91.1 and 0.91.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted e-mail message. NOTE: this information is based upon a vague advisory by a vulnerability information sales organization that does not coordinate with vendors or release actionable advisories. A CVE has been assigned for tracking purposes, but duplicates with other CVEs are difficult to determine.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

freshclam in (1) Clam Antivirus (ClamAV) 0.88 and (2) ClamXav 1.0.3h and earlier does not drop privileges before processing the config-file command line option, which allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files when an error message displays the first line of the target file.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.1
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The chmdecompressstream function in libclamav/chmunpack.c in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.90.2 leaks file descriptors, which has unknown impact and attack vectors involving a crafted CHM file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-0897. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Off-by-one error in ClamAV before 0.92 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted MS-ZIP compressed CAB file.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.4
Path Traversal
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Directory traversal vulnerability in clamd in Clam AntiVirus ClamAV before 0.90 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the id MIME header parameter in a multi-part message.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Multiple interpretation error in unspecified versions of ClamAV Antivirus allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a malicious executable in a specially crafted RAR file with malformed central and local headers, which can still be opened by products such as Winrar and PowerZip, even though they are rejected as corrupted by Winzip and BitZipper.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.1
Integer Overflow
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Integer overflow in the cliscanpe function in the PE header parser (libclamav/pe.c) in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.88.1, when ArchiveMaxFileSize is disabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.1
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Buffer overflow in the getdatabase function in the HTTP client in Freshclam in ClamAV 0.80 to 0.88.1 might allow remote web servers to execute arbitrary code via long HTTP headers.

First published (updated )

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