CVE-2018-0202

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

clamscan in ClamAV before 0.99.4 contains a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper input validation checking mechanisms when handling Portable Document Format (.pdf) files sent to an affected device. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted .pdf file to an affected device. This action could cause an out-of-bounds read when ClamAV scans the malicious file, allowing the attacker to cause a DoS condition. This concerns pdf_parse_array and pdf_parse_string in libclamav/pdfng.c. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvh91380, CSCvh91400.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0202

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0202.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201803-14

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed0.99.4-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.100.0~beta+dfsg-2
debian debianbullseyefixed0.100.0~beta+dfsg-2
debian debianforkyfixed0.100.0~beta+dfsg-2
debian debiansidfixed0.100.0~beta+dfsg-2
debian debiantrixiefixed0.100.0~beta+dfsg-2

References

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