Improper Access Control Affecting clamav package, versions [,0.99.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CLAMAV-2381125
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Oct 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-1371  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade clamav to version 0.99.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. ClamAV (aka Clam AntiVirus) before 0.99.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted mew packer executable.

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