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CVE-2018-0360

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

ClamAV before 0.100.1 has an HWP integer overflow with a resultant infinite loop via a crafted Hangul Word Processor file. This is in parsehwp3_paragraph() in libclamav/hwp.c.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
• Cisco ClamAV: before 0.100.1 — fixed in 0.100.1
• Debian Linux: 8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Cisco ClamAV 0.100.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041367
• https://blog.clamav.net/2018/07/clamav-01001-has-been-released.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00020.html
• https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2018-12/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-12
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3722-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3722-2/
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041367
• https://blog.clamav.net/2018/07/clamav-01001-has-been-released.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00020.html
• https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2018-12/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-12

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