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CVE-2004-0270
libclamav in Clam AntiVirus 0.65 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a uuencoded e-mail message with an…
Medium5.0EPSS 10.4%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.4% · top 4.3% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (6)
- GLSA-200402-07 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62586 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 9610 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20040209 clamav 0.65 remote DOS exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 3894 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- clam-antivirus-uuencoded-dos(15077) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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