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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-0897 Detail

Description

Clam AntiVirus ClamAV before 0.90 does not close open file descriptors under certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption and failed scans) via CAB archives with a cabinet header record length of zero, which causes a function to return without closing a file descriptor.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Evaluator Solution

This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release: Clam AntiVirus, ClamAV, 0.90 Stable

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=475 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List 
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Feb/0004.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://osvdb.org/32283 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24183 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24187 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24192 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24319 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24332 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24425 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-03.xml CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1263 CVE, MITRE Mailing List 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:043 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22580 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Patch  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017659 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0623 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32531 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-0897
NVD Published Date:
02/16/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE