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GLSA-200708-04 : ClamAV: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25869

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200708-04 (ClamAV: Denial of Service)

 Metaeye Security Group reported a NULL pointer dereference in ClamAV when processing RAR archives.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could send a specially crafted RAR archive to the clamd daemon, resulting in a crash and a Denial of Service.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All ClamAV users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-antivirus/clamav-0.91'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200708-04

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25869

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200708-04.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 8/13/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:clamav, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/11/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3725

GLSA: 200708-04