ClamAV < 0.96.3 DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5672

Synopsis

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

Description

Versions of ClamAV earlier than 0.96.3 are potentially affected by a denial-of-service vulnerability because the application fails to properly handle specially crafted PDF files. An attacker, exploiting this flaw, can crash the affected service.

Solution

Upgrade to ClamAV 0.96.3 or later.

See Also

https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2226

http://git.clamav.net/gitweb?p=clamav-devel.git;a=blob_plain;f=ChangeLog;hb=clamav-0.96.3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5672

Family: Web Clients

Published: 9/28/2010

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 49712

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:clamav

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0405, CVE-2010-3434

BID: 43331, 43555