Use After Free Affecting clamav package, versions [,0.99.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CLAMAV-2381203
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Jan 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Jan 2018

CVE-2017-12374  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade clamav to version 0.99.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. The ClamAV AntiVirus software versions 0.99.2 and prior contain a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a lack of input validation checking mechanisms during certain mail parsing operations (mbox.c operations on bounce messages). If successfully exploited, the ClamAV software could allow a variable pointing to the mail body which could cause a used after being free (use-after-free) instance which may lead to a disruption of services on an affected device to include a denial of service condition.

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