Out-of-bounds Write Affecting clamav package, versions [,1.4.5)[1.4.0,1.5.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.57% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CLAMAV-17812665
  • published4 Jul 2026
  • disclosed1 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-20214  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade clamav to version 1.4.5, 1.5.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write in the FSG file format parser due to improper boundary checks when processing FSG files. An attacker can cause memory corruption and terminate the scanning process by submitting a specially crafted FSG file for scanning.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by restricting network access to the daemon to trusted clients only, such as by configuring firewall rules to limit connections to the port the service listens on.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1