CVE-2007-0897

Publication date 16 February 2007

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Clam AntiVirus ClamAV before 0.90 does not close open file descriptors under certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption and failed scans) via CAB archives with a cabinet header record length of zero, which causes a function to return without closing a file descriptor.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
clamav 8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 0.91.2-3ubuntu1
7.10 gutsy
Fixed 0.91.2-3ubuntu1
7.04 feisty
Fixed 0.90.2-0ubuntu1.3
6.10 edgy Ignored end of life, was needed
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1~dapper2

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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