GLSA-202507-03 : ClamAV: Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 241589

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202507-03 (ClamAV: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ClamAV. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

All ClamAV users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=app-antivirus/clamav-1.4.1

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202507-03

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=912370

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=913246

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924024

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=940140

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 241589

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202507-03.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/8/2025

Updated: 7/8/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.2

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-20506

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:clamav

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-20197, CVE-2023-20212, CVE-2023-40477, CVE-2024-20290, CVE-2024-20328, CVE-2024-20505, CVE-2024-20506