ClamAV < 0.86.1 Content-parsing DoS (deprecated)

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 3033

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

Description

The remote host is running ClamAV, an open-source antivirus solution for Unix-like systems.
This version of ClamAV is reported to be vulnerable to a flaw where the parsing of a malicious file will cause the ClamAV process to crash. An attacker exploiting this flaw would need to be able to send a specially formed email to the system running ClamAV. Successful exploitation would result in loss of service.

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.86.1 or higher.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 3033

Family: Web Clients

Published: 6/27/2005

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1922, CVE-2005-1923, CVE-2005-2056

BID: 14058, 14089, 14090

Detections

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