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ClamAV <= 0.101.4, 0.102.0 Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability (Linux)
Information
Severity
Severity
High
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
7.8
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
4 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
ClamAV is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The vulnerability is due to inefficient MIME parsing routines that result in extremely long scan times of specially formatted email files. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email file to an affected device.
Affected Software
Affected Software
ClamAV through version 0.101.4 and version 0.102.0.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 0.101.5 or 0.102.1 respectively.