Buffer Overflow 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-17812667
  • published4 Jul 2026
  • disclosed1 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-20243  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (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 Buffer Overflow in the ALZ file parsing process. An attacker can cause memory corruption and terminate the scanning process by submitting a specially crafted ALZ file for scanning. This could disrupt services that rely on the scanning process for malware detection.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1