Denial of Service Vulnerability in ClamAV Prior to 0.100.2 via MEW Unpacker

Denial of Service Vulnerability in ClamAV Prior to 0.100.2 via MEW Unpacker

CVE-2018-15378 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

A vulnerability in ClamAV versions prior to 0.100.2 could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to an error related to the MEW unpacker within the "unmew11()" function (libclamav/mew.c), which can be exploited to trigger an invalid read memory access via a specially crafted EXE file.

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