CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0897

7.5 HIGH Published 2007-02-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2007-02-16
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses: CWE-772

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.

Affected configurations

• clamav clamav (< 0.90) • apple mac os x server (< 10.4.11) • debian debian linux 3.1

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (3)

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
CWE-775 Missing Release of File Descriptor or Handle after Effective Lifetime weakness

References

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