CVE-2021-1404

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-1404
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-04-08 05:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-08-05 17:18:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in the PDF parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.103.0 and 0.103.1 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper buffer size tracking that may result in a heap buffer over-read. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted PDF file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process to crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Clamav Clamav 0.103.0 All All All
Application Clamav Clamav 0.103.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ClamAV® blog: ClamAV 0.103.2 security patch release CISCO blog.clamav.net
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 174899 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for clamav (SUSE-SU-2021:1174-1)
  • 174903 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for clamav (SUSE-SU-2021:1190-1)
  • 174911 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for clamav (SUSE-SU-2021:1189-1)
  • 179824 Debian Security Update for clamav (CVE-2021-1404)
  • 198334 Ubuntu Security Notification for ClamAV vulnerabilities (USN-4918-1)
  • 375524 ClamAV Multiple Vulnerability
  • 500100 Alpine Linux Security Update for clamav
  • 503825 Alpine Linux Security Update for clamav
  • 690182 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for clamav (9ae2c00f-97d0-11eb-8cd6-080027f515ea)
  • 750265 OpenSUSE Security Update for clamav (openSUSE-SU-2021:0555-1)
  • 900102 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for clamav 0.103.0
  • 903084 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for clamav (4077)
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