Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software Email Parsing Vulnerability
CVE-2019-15961

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Clamav

Status
Clamav
Vendor
CVE Published:
15 January 2020

What is CVE-2019-15961?

A vulnerability in the email parsing module Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0, 0.101.4 and prior could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. 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. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process to scan the crafted email file indefinitely, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Affected Version(s)

ClamAV <= 0.102.0

ClamAV < 0.101.4

References

https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12380
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https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvr...
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/4230-2/
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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