CVE-2016-1371

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-10-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

ClamAV (aka Clam AntiVirus) before 0.99.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted mew packer executable.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04
Cisco ClamAV: through 0.99.1

References

http://blog.clamav.net/2016/05/clamav-0992-has-been-released.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93222
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3093-1
https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11514
https://foxglovesecurity.com/2016/06/13/finding-pearls-fuzzing-clamav/
http://blog.clamav.net/2016/05/clamav-0992-has-been-released.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93222
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3093-1
https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11514
https://foxglovesecurity.com/2016/06/13/finding-pearls-fuzzing-clamav/

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