Improper Input Validation Affecting clamav package, versions [,0.93.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.2% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CLAMAV-2381149
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Apr 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Apr 2008

CVE-2008-1835  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade clamav to version 0.93.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to bypass the scanning enging via a RAR file with an invalid version number, which cannot be parsed by ClamAV but can be extracted by Winrar.

CVSS Scores

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