CVE-2004-0270

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Published Sep 1, 2004 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 10.4% KEV · Not listed

Description

libclamav in Clam AntiVirus 0.65 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a uuencoded e-mail message with an invalid line length (e.g., a lowercase character), which causes an assert error in clamd that terminates the calling program.

Affected Products

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.65:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

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Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploit prediction score: 10.4% (10.409% probability within 30 days)

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107634700823822&w=2
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200402-07.xml
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62586
http://www.osvdb.org/3894
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9610
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15077

History

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Subscriptions

Clam Anti-virus Clamav

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

Sources

CVE record Updated: Aug 8, 2024, 12:10 AM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: Sep 1, 2004, 4:00 AM
Updated: Aug 8, 2024, 12:10 AM
Reserved: Mar 17, 2004, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 16, 2026, 10:05 PM

Status: Modified
Published: Nov 23, 2004, 5:00 AM
Modified: Jun 16, 2026, 10:05 PM

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