Improper Input Validation Affecting clamav package, versions [,0.95)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
18.55% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CLAMAV-2381185
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Apr 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Apr 2009

CVE-2009-1371  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade clamav to version 0.95 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. The CLI_ISCONTAINED macro in libclamav/others.h in ClamAV before 0.95.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed file with UPack encoding.

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