CVE-2013-2021
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
pdf.c in ClamAV 0.97.1 through 0.97.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds-read) via a crafted length value in an encrypted PDF file.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 11.0 | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 13.04 | Affected | — |
| 12.10 | Affected | — |
| 12.04 | Affected | — |
| 11.10 | Affected | — |
| 10.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0.97.8+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 0.97.8+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 0.97.8+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0.97.8+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0.97.8+dfsg-1 |
References
- http://blog.clamav.net/2013/04/clamav-0978-has-been-released.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00004.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-June/109514.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-June/109639.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-June/109652.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105575.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-12/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00020.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53150
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53182
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5892
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:159
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/25/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/29/20
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59434
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1816-1
- https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=7053
- https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-devel/commit/24ff855c82d3f5c62bc5788a5776cefbffce2971
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2021
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.