CVE-2013-2021

medium
Published 2013-05-13 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
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 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

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0.97.8+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.97.8+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.97.8+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed0.97.8+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.97.8+dfsg-1
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu11.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu13.04affected
suse suse11.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
clamavclamav0.97.1
clamavclamav0.97.2
clamavclamav0.97.3
clamavclamav0.97.4
clamavclamav0.97.5
clamavclamav0.97.6
clamavclamav0.97.7

References

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.