CVE-2004-0270 EXPLOIT
5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 10.4% (pctl 96)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| EPSS | 10.41% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2004-11-23 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| clam anti-virus | clamav |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | ClamAV Daemon 0.65 - UUEncoded Message Denial of Service | 2004-02-09 |
References
- 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
- 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
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