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CVE-2019-1787

Publication date 3 April 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

A vulnerability in the Portable Document Format (PDF) scanning functionality of Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.101.1 and prior could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a lack of proper data handling mechanisms within the device buffer while indexing remaining file data on an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted PDF files to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a heap buffer out-of-bounds read condition, resulting in a crash that could result in a denial of service condition on an affected device.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
clamav 18.10 cosmic
Fixed 0.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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