CVE-2010-1311

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-04-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The qtm_decompress function in libclamav/mspack.c in ClamAV before 0.96 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted CAB archive that uses the Quantum (aka .Q) compression format. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Cisco ClamAV: through 0.96; 0.01, 0.02, 0.3, 0.03, 0.05, 0.9-rc1 (+87)
Clamavs Clamav: 0.04, 0.06

References

http://git.clamav.net/gitweb?p=clamav-devel.git%3Ba=blob_plain%3Bf=ChangeLog%3Bhb=clamav-0.96
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Aug/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39293
http://secunia.com/advisories/39329
http://secunia.com/advisories/39656
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4312
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:082
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39262
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-926-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0827
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0832

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