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Fedora 31 : clamav (2019-1543eae191)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 131573

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Drop [email protected] file (bz#1725810)

ClamAV 0.101.5 is a security patch release that addresses the following issues.

 - CVE-2019-15961: 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.

 - Added the zip scanning improvements found in v0.102.0 where it scans files using zip records from a sorted catalogue which provides deduplication of file records resulting in faster extraction and scan time and reducing the likelihood of alerting on non-malicious duplicate file entries as overlapping files.

 - Signature load time is significantly reduced by changing to a more efficient algorithm for loading signature patterns and allocating the AC trie. Patch courtesy of Alberto Wu.

 - Introduced a new configure option to statically link libjson-c with libclamav. Static linking with libjson is highly recommended to prevent crashes in applications that use libclamav alongside another JSON parsing library.

 - Null-dereference fix in email parser when using the
 --gen-json metadata option.

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Add TimeoutStartSec=420 to [email protected] to match upstream

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Solution

Update the affected clamav package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-1543eae191

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 131573

File Name: fedora_2019-1543eae191.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2019

Updated: 4/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:fedoraproject:fedora:clamav, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15961