CVE-2016-1405

high
Published 2016-06-08 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

libclamav in ClamAV (aka Clam AntiVirus), as used in Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) on Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) devices before 9.7.0-125 and Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices before 9.0.1-135 and 9.1.x before 9.1.1-041, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (AMP process restart) via a crafted document, aka Bug IDs CSCuv78533 and CSCuw60503.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.99+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.99+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.99+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed0.99+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.99+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
clamavclamav
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.6.0-042
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.8.0-085
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.1.0-070
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance9.5.0-284

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.