VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-6497

low
Published 2014-12-01 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.1

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.

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.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.98.5+dfsg-1
sid Fixed 0.98.5+dfsg-1
forky Fixed 0.98.5+dfsg-1
bullseye Fixed 0.98.5+dfsg-1
bookworm Fixed 0.98.5+dfsg-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
clamavclamav{"endIncluding":"0.98.4"}

References

CWEs

CWE-17

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.