CVE-2017-12375: Clamav

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ClamAV AntiVirus software versions 0.99.2 and prior contain 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 a lack of input validation checking mechanisms during certain mail parsing functions (the rfc2047 function in mbox.c). An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email to the affected device. This action could cause a buffer overflow condition when ClamAV scans the malicious email, allowing the attacker to potentially cause a DoS condition on an affected device.

Affected products

  • Clamav Clamav: up to and including 0.99.2
  • Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-01-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.