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CVE-2004-0270: clam_anti-virus clamav

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2004-0270
Published 01-09-2004Last modified 08-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2004-0270 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in clam_anti-virus clamav. EPSS estimates a 10.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Overall risk
32/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
10.41%
0%100%
Medium · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits2reference, exploit-database

Timeline

  1. 01-09-2004
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 08-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

10.41%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

96%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 10.41% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026
EPSS score
10.41%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

2 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (securityfocus.com)

    Maturity: unknown

  • exploit-databasedoslinuxVerified

    ClamAV Daemon 0.65 - UUEncoded Message Denial of Service

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Clam_anti-virus1 product
Debian1 product
  • clamav< 0.80

2 vendors · 2 products

References

7 links