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FreeBSD : clamav -- Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability (6ade62d9-0f62-11ea-9673-4c72b94353b5)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 131295

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Micah Snyder reports :

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability may occur when scanning a specially crafted email file as a result of excessively long scan times. The issue is resolved by implementing several maximums in parsing MIME messages and by optimizing use of memory allocation.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a8ab2014

http://www.nessus.org/u?49c0086b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 131295

File Name: freebsd_pkg_6ade62d90f6211ea96734c72b94353b5.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 11/26/2019

Updated: 4/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15961

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:clamav, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/25/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15961