CVE-2016-1371

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2016-1371 · Published 03/10/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-1371 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting clamav (clamav).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.6%, higher than 76.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
clamav clamav	`≤ 0.99.1`	No fix yet

Description

ClamAV (aka Clam AntiVirus) before 0.99.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted mew packer executable.

References

blog.clamav.net/2016/05/clamav-0992-has-been-released.html · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/93222 · Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3093-1 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
foxglovesecurity.com/2016/06/13/finding-pearls-fuzzing-clamav · Exploit

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

clamav

≤ 0.99.1

No fix yet

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