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clamav — security advisory
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.
- Products
- clamav
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.80
- CVEs
- CVE-2004-0270
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0270
clamav
Fixed versions: 0.80
clamav
Fixed versions: 0.80
clamav
Fixed versions: 0.80
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-21T15:47:39.295205137Z",
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