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CVE-2017-12375
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2018-01-26 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-119
Description
The ClamAV AntiVirus software versions 0.99.2 and prior contain a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a lack of input validation checking mechanisms during certain mail parsing functions (the rfc2047 function in mbox.c). An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email to the affected device. This action could cause a buffer overflow condition when ClamAV scans the malicious email, allowing the attacker to potentially cause a DoS condition on an affected device.
Affected products
- Cisco ClamAV: through 0.99.2
- Debian Linux: 7.0
References
- http://blog.clamav.net/2018/01/clamav-0993-has-been-released.html
- https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11940
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00035.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3550-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3550-2/
- http://blog.clamav.net/2018/01/clamav-0993-has-been-released.html
- https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11940
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00035.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3550-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3550-2/
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