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CVE-2013-6497
clamscan in ClamAV before 0.98.5, when using -a option, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) as demonstrated by…
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 1.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 33% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
clamscan in ClamAV before 0.98.5, when using -a option, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) as demonstrated by the jwplayer.js file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 13 months later
· 13 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 33% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
17
- openSUSE-SU-2014:1560 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20141118 Fwd: [Clamav-devel] ClamAV(R) blog: ClamAV 0.98.5 has been released! (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2014-15473 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2014:1571 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2014-15463 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20141118 Re: Fwd: [Clamav-devel] ClamAV(R) blog: ClamAV 0.98.5 has been released! (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://blog.clamav.net/2014/11/clamav-0985-has-been-released.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 71178 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MDVSA-2014:217 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 59645 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 60150 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-2423-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11088 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2488-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1138101 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- clamv-cve20136497os(98804) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2014:1574 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-6300 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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