CVE-2004-0270 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2004-09-01

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 11.1% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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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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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

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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.

The EPSS score is 0.11105.

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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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Clam Anti-virus Clamav

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-09-01T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:10:03.983Z

Reserved: 2004-03-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-0270

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-11-23T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2004-0270

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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