CVE-2015-2222

medium
Published 2015-05-12 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

ClamAV before 0.98.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted petite packed 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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
15.1 Affected โ€”
14.10 Affected โ€”
14.04 Affected โ€”
12.04 Affected โ€”
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.98.7+dfsg-1
sid Fixed 0.98.7+dfsg-1
forky Fixed 0.98.7+dfsg-1
bullseye Fixed 0.98.7+dfsg-1
bookworm Fixed 0.98.7+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
clamavclamav{"endIncluding":"0.98.6"}

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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

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