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ClamAV < 0.94.2 cli_check_jpeg_exploit() Malformed JPEG File DoS (deprecated)

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4776

Synopsis

The remote antivirus service is vulnerable to a denial of service attack.

Description

According to its version, the clamd antivirus daemon on the remote host is earlier than 0.94.2. There is a recursive stack overflow involving the JPEG parsing code in such versions. A remote attacker may be able to leverage this issue to cause the application to recursively scan a specially crafted JPEG, which will eventually cause it to crash.

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.94.2 or higher.

See Also

https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1266

http://svn.clamav.net/svn/clamav-devel/trunk/ChangeLog (look for bb#1266)

http://svn.clamav.net/svn/clamav-devel/trunk/ChangeLog

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4776

Family: Web Clients

Published: 12/2/2008

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 35009

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5314

BID: 32555