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Unscored USN-3393-1 3 CVEs

clamav vulnerabilities

Published Aug 17, 2017 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing certain e-mail
messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6418)

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled certain malformed CHM
files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. In the default installation,
attackers would be isolated by the ClamAV AppArmor profile. (CVE-2017-6419)

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing certain PE files
with WWPack compression. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6420)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS clamav 0.99.2+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS clamav 0.99.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6418
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6419
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6420