Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting clamav package, versions [,0.94.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.92% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CLAMAV-2381199
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Jul 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jul 2009

CVE-2008-6845  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (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 Denial of Service (DoS). The unpack feature in ClamAV 0.93.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a corrupted LZH file.

CVSS Scores

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