Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting clamav package, versions [,0.103.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CLAMAV-2381221
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Mar 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-27506  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade clamav to version 0.103.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The ClamAV Engine (version 0.103.1 and below) component embedded in Storsmshield Network Security (SNS) is subject to DoS in case of parsing of malformed png files. This affect Netasq versions 9.1.0 to 9.1.11 and SNS versions 1.0.0 to 4.2.0. This issue is fixed in SNS 3.7.19, 3.11.7 and 4.2.1.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1