Memory Leak Affecting clamav package, versions [,0.94)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.01% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CLAMAV-2381201
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Sept 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Sep 2008

CVE-2008-3913  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade clamav to version 0.94 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Leak. Multiple memory leaks in freshclam/manager.c in ClamAV before 0.94 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors related to "error handling logic".

CVSS Scores

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