Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting clamav package, versions [,0.87.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.96% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CLAMAV-2381118
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Nov 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Nov 2005

CVE-2005-3500  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade clamav to version 0.87.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The tnef_attachment function in tnef.c for Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.87.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and memory exhaustion) via a crafted value in a CAB file that causes ClamAV to repeatedly scan the same block.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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