Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-1371
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:06 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1371",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
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"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",
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"aliases": [
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"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": [
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"repo": "https://github.com/cisco-talos/clamav",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
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"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:clamav:clamav:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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},
{
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}
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"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": {
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{
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"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": [
{
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}
],
"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"
}