CVE-2010-4261

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-12-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in the icon_cb function in pe_icons.c in libclamav in ClamAV before 0.96.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Cisco ClamAV: through 0.96.4; 0.01, 0.02, 0.3, 0.03, 0.05, 0.8-rc3 (+106)

References

http://git.clamav.net/gitweb?p=clamav-devel.git%3Ba=blob_plain%3Bf=ChangeLog%3Bhb=master
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00006.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051905.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052401.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00006.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/03/1
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/03/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/03/6
http://secunia.com/advisories/42426
http://secunia.com/advisories/42523
http://secunia.com/advisories/42555
http://secunia.com/advisories/42720

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