CVE-2016-1405

Publication date 8 June 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

libclamav in ClamAV (aka Clam AntiVirus), as used in Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) on Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) devices before 9.7.0-125 and Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices before 9.0.1-135 and 9.1.x before 9.1.1-041, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (AMP process restart) via a crafted document, aka Bug IDs CSCuv78533 and CSCuw60503.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
clamav 16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.99.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.99.2+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 0.99.2+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Notes

mdeslaur

no details as to what the fix is as of 2016-07-12

ratliff

still no details as to what the fix is as of 2016-08-31

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3093-1
    • ClamAV vulnerabilities
    • 28 September 2016

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