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Unscored USN-3722-5 0 CVEs

clamav regression

Published Sep 18, 2018 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

USN-3722-1 fixed vulnerabilities in ClamAV. The new package introduced an
issue which caused dpkg-reconfigure to enter an infinite loop. This update
fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing certain HWP
files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to hang,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-0360)

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing certain PDF
files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ClamAV to hang,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-0361)

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS clamav 0.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.4
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS clamav 0.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.16.04.3
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS clamav 0.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.3

References

  • report
    https://launchpad.net/bugs/1792051