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FreeBSD : clamav -- zip handling DoS vulnerability (70b62f5e-9e2e-11d9-a256-0001020eed82)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18978

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The clamav daemon is vulnerable to a DoS vulnerability due to insufficient handling of malformed zip files which can crash the clamav daemon.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d57153d7

http://www.nessus.org/u?dfd8144d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18978

File Name: freebsd_pkg_70b62f5e9e2e11d9a2560001020eed82.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:clamav, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:clamav-devel, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0133

BID: 12408