Resource Exhaustion Affecting clamav-devel package, versions <0:0.101.5-1.42.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.58% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-CLAMAVDEVEL-1721099
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed15 Jan 2020

Introduced: 15 Jan 2020

CVE-2019-15961  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 clamav-devel to version 0:0.101.5-1.42.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2020-1335.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream clamav-devel package and not the clamav-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

A vulnerability in the email parsing module Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0, 0.101.4 and prior could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to inefficient MIME parsing routines that result in extremely long scan times of specially formatted email files. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process to scan the crafted email file indefinitely, resulting in a denial of service condition.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1