CVE-2004-0270

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: 0.65

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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