What is CVE-2007-0899?

CVE-2007-0899 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Clamav, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-11-06.

How severe is CVE-2007-0899?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Clamav

CVE-2007-0899

There is a possible heap overflow in libclamav/fsg.c before 0.100.0.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2019-11-06 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (73.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 73.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Clamav
Debian Linux — versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-0899 (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2007-0899?: CVE-2007-0899 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Clamav, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-11-06.
How severe is CVE-2007-0899?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.