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ClamAV OLE2 File Format Decryption Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published Jan 22, 2025

Description

A vulnerability in the Object Linking and Embedding 2 (OLE2) decryption routine of ClamAV could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to an integer underflow in a bounds check that allows for a heap buffer overflow read. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted file containing OLE2 content to be scanned by ClamAV on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to terminate the ClamAV scanning process, resulting in a DoS condition on the affected software. For a description of this vulnerability, see the . Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

References (4)

Change history (0)

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Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner cisco
Published Jan 22, 2025
Updated Nov 3, 2025
Reserved Oct 10, 2024

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated Jan 22, 2025

NVD

Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner cisco
Published Jan 22, 2025
Updated Nov 3, 2025

GitHub

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