CVE-2015-1463

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-02-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-17

Description

ClamAV before 0.98.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted petite packer file, related to an "incorrect compiler optimization."

Affected products

Cisco ClamAV: through 0.98.5
Fedoraproject Fedora: 20, 21

References

http://blog.clamav.net/2015/01/clamav-0986-has-been-released.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148950.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148958.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00020.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-08
http://blog.clamav.net/2015/01/clamav-0986-has-been-released.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148950.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148958.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00020.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-08

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