CVE-2013-2021

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-05-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

pdf.c in ClamAV 0.97.1 through 0.97.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds-read) via a crafted length value in an encrypted PDF file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10, 13.04
Cisco ClamAV: 0.97.1, 0.97.2, 0.97.3, 0.97.4, 0.97.5, 0.97.6 (+1)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11.0-sp1, 11.0-sp2

References

http://blog.clamav.net/2013/04/clamav-0978-has-been-released.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00004.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-June/109514.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-June/109639.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-June/109652.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105575.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-12/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00018.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00020.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/53150
http://secunia.com/advisories/53182

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