Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) libclamunrar denial of service
| clamav-libclamunrar-dos (41870) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in libclamunrar. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted RAR file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 4.3 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 3.2 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of ClamAV (0.93 or later), available from the Clam AntiVirus Web site. See References.
For other distributions:
Apply the appropriate update for your system. See References.
References:
- Apple Web site: About the security content of Mac OS X v10.5.5 and Security Update 2008-006 .
- Astaro Web site: Up2Date Announcements: Up2Date ASG V7.300 GA Release.
- Clam AntiVirus Web site: Clam AntiVirus.
- ClamAV Bugzilla Bug 898: RAR crashes on some fuzzed files from CERT-FI.
- BID-28784: ClamAV 0.92.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2008-1837: libclamunrar in ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted RAR files that trigger memory problems
- GLSA-200805-19: ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities
- MDVSA-2008:088: Updated clamav packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
- SA31576: Astaro update for ClamAV
- SA31882: Apple Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SUSE-SA:2008:024: clamav 0.93 security update
- VUPEN/ADV-2008-1227: ClamAV PeSpin and Archives Processing Multiple Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2008-2584: Apple Mac OS X Code Execution and Security Bypass Vulnerabilities
Platforms Affected:
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.11
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.1
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.2
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.3
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.4
- Astaro Astaro Security Gateway 7.0
- ClamAV ClamAV 0.90 RC1
- ClamAV ClamAV 0.90 RC2
- ClamAV ClamAV 0.90 RC1.1
- ClamAV ClamAV 0.90
- ClamAV ClamAV 0.90 RC3
- ClamAV ClamAV 0.90.1
- ClamAV ClamAV 0.91
- ClamAV ClamAV 0.92
- Gentoo Linux
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2007.1 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2007.1
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.0
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.1
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.1 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0
- Novell Linux POS 9
- Novell Open Enterprise Server
- Novell Open Enterprise Server
- Novell OpenSUSE 10.2
- Novell OpenSUSE 10.3
- Novell SLE SDK 10 SP1
- Novell SLE SDK 10
- Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1
- Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
- SuSE SuSE SLES 9
Reported:
Apr 14, 2008
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