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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-1371

ClamAV (aka Clam AntiVirus) before 0.99.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted mew packer executable.

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CVE-2016-1371
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1 Nov 2026, 07:06 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2016-1371

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Oct 2016, 18:59 UTC

ClamAV (aka Clam AntiVirus) before 0.99.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted mew packer executable.

osv:CVE-2016-1371
Complete source record
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  "id": "f0949c5e0f7fe14d43a810cb64dc1fe65eb2fa1e284892b48c290f3e1e2d70cc",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1371",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-1371",
    "summary": "ClamAV (aka Clam AntiVirus) before 0.99.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted mew packer executable.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-1371",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-1371",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-1371"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/cisco-talos/clamav",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "788cda166f93f4529bdcabe46f5288b51b9ec7d5"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:clamav:clamav:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.99.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "clamav-0.99.1",
            "clamav-0.99.1-beta1",
            "clamav-0.97",
            "clamav-0.97rc",
            "clamav-0.96.5",
            "clamav-0.96.4",
            "clamav-0.96.3",
            "clamav-0.96.2",
            "clamav-0.96",
            "clamav-0.96rc2",
            "clamav-0.96rc1",
            "merge-llvm-97877",
            "r5076"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-1371.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:48.721955433Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11514",
        "https://foxglovesecurity.com/2016/06/13/finding-pearls-fuzzing-clamav/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "12.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "12.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "14.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "16.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-1371",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 436829,
  "published_at": "2016-10-03T18:59:02.733+00:00"
}