Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting clamav package, versions [,0.86)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.53% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CLAMAV-2381145
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Jul 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Jul 2005

CVE-2005-1922  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade clamav to version 0.86 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The MS-Expand file handling in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.86 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor and memory consumption) via a crafted file that causes repeated errors in the cli_msexpand function.

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