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CVE-2004-0270 (GCVE-0-2004-0270)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-09-01 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:10
VLAI
Summary
libclamav in Clam AntiVirus 0.65 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a uuencoded e-mail message with an invalid line length (e.g., a lowercase character), which causes an assert error in clamd that terminates the calling program.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200402-07.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62586 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9610 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107634700823822&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.osvdb.org/3894 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2004-02-09 00:00
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