Resource Management Errors Affecting clamav package, versions [,0.94.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
13.32% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CLAMAV-2381192
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Sept 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Sep 2008

CVE-2008-1389  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade clamav to version 0.94.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors libclamav/chmunpack.c in the chm-parser in ClamAV before 0.94 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed CHM file, related to an "invalid memory access."

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