ClamAV 1.0.0 < 1.0.4, 1.1.x, 1.2.0 < 1.2.1 DoS

high Nessus Plugin ID 190352

Synopsis

The antivirus running on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

A vulnerability in the OLE2 file format parser of ClamAV could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to an incorrect check for end-of-string values during scanning, which may result in a heap buffer over-read. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted file containing OLE2 content to be scanned by ClamAV on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process to terminate, resulting in a DoS condition on the affected software and consuming available system resources.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to ClamAV version 1.2.2, 1.0.5 or later.

See Also

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20290

https://blog.clamav.net/2023/11/clamav-130-122-105-released.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 190352

File Name: clamav_CVE-2024-20290.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: combined

Family: Misc.

Published: 2/9/2024

Updated: 2/12/2024

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-20290

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:clamav:clamav

Required KB Items: installed_sw/ClamAV

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-20290

IAVB: 2024-B-0008