CVE-2010-1639

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-05-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The cli_pdf function in libclamav/pdf.c in ClamAV before 0.96.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed PDF file, related to an inconsistency in the calculated stream length and the real stream length.

Affected products

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

References

http://git.clamav.net/gitweb?p=clamav-devel.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f0eb394501ec21b9fe67f36cbf5db788711d4236#patch2
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055771.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055777.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39895
http://secunia.com/advisories/43752
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:110
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40317
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024017
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1214
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58824
https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2016

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