Executive Summary

Summary
Title ClamAV vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-4230-2 First vendor Publication 2020-01-23
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2020-01-23
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 6.5
Base Score 6.5 Environmental Score 6.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 6.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 2.8
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.1 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM - Ubuntu 12.04 ESM

Summary:

ClamAV could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - clamav: Anti-virus utility for Unix

Details:

USN-4230-1 fixed a vulnerability in ClamAV. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled certain MIME messages. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash,
resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
clamav 0.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM:
clamav 0.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4230-2
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4230-1
CVE-2019-15961

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4230-2

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 145
Os 2
Os 2
Os 1

Alert History

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Date Informations
2020-05-23 13:03:46
  • Multiple Updates
2020-01-23 21:19:24
  • First insertion