Clam AntiVirus libclamav denial of service

clamav-libclamav-dos (45056)

Medium Risk

Description:

Clam AntiVirus is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Null pointer dereference error in libclamav. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using an out-of-memory condition to cause the application to crash.

*CVSS:

Base Score:	5
Access Vector:	Network
Access Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial
Temporal Score:	3.7
Exploitability:	Unproven
Remediation Level:	Official-Fix
Report Confidence:	Confirmed

Consequences:

Denial of Service

Remedy:

Upgrade to the latest version of Clam AntiVirus (0.94 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 Security Update 2008-007 .
• Astaro Web site: Up2Date 7.302 Released.
• Clam AntiVirus Web site: Clam AntiVirus.
• oss-security Mailing List, Thu, 4 Sep 2008 12:44:44 -0400 (EDT) : Re: request for CVE: clamav 0.94 release .
• oss-security Mailing List, Wed, 3 Sep 2008 11:03:27 +0200 : request for CVE: clamav 0.94 release .
• BID-31051: ClamAV Multiple Unspecified Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
• BID-31681: RETIRED: Apple Mac OS X 2008-007 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
• CVE-2008-3912: libclamav in ClamAV before 0.94 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via vectors related to an out-of-memory condition.
• DSA-1660: clamav -- null pointer derefence
• GLSA-200809-18: ClamAV: Multiple Denials of Service
• MDVSA-2008:189: clamav
• MDVSA-2008:189-1: clamav
• SA31906: Kolab Server ClamAV Denial of Service
• SA31929: Astaro update for ClamAV
• SA32222: Apple Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities
• SECTRACK ID: 1020828: Clam AntiVirus Memory Access Errors Let Remote Users Deny Service
• SUSE-SR:2008:018: SUSE Security Summary Report
• VUPEN/ADV-2008-2564: Kolab Server ClamAV Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
• VUPEN/ADV-2008-2780: 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 10.5.5
• Astaro Astaro Security Gateway 7.301
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.01
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.02
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.03
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.04
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.05
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.06
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.10
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.11
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.12
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.13
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.14
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.14 Pre
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.15
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.20
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.21
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.22
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.23
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.24
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.51
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.52
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.53
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.54
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.60
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.60p
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.65
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.67
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.68
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.68.1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.70
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.71
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.72
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.73
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.74
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.75
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.75.1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.80 RC4
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.80 RC3
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.80 RC2
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.80
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.80 RC1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.80 RC
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.81 RC1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.81
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.82
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.83
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.84
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.84 rc2
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.84 RC1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.85
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.85.1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.86
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.86 RC1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.86 RC2
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.86.1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.86.2
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.87
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.87.1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.88
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.88.1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.88.2
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.88.3
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.88.4
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.88.5
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.88.6
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.88.7 P1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.88.7 P0
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.88.7
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.90
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.90 RC2
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.90 RC1.1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.90 RC3
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.90 RC1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.90.1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.90.1 P0
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.90.2 P0
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.90.2
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.90.3 P1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.90.3
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.90.3 P0
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.91
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.91 RC1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.91 RC2
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.91.1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.91.2
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.91.2 P0
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.92
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.92 P0
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.92.1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.93
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.93.1
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.93.2
• ClamAV ClamAV 0.93.3
• Debian Debian Linux 4.0
• Gentoo Linux
• MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2007.1
• MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2007.1 X86_64
• 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

Reported:

Sep 03, 2008

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