ClamAV < 0.97.2 DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5994

Synopsis

The remote host is running an anti-virus application that is vulnerable to a denial of service attack.

Description

Versions of ClamAV earlier than 0.97.2 are potentially affected by a denial of service vulnerability. An off-by-one error exists in the 'cli_hm_scan' function in the file 'libclamav/matcher-hash.c' that can be exploited by a specially crafted message causing the clamd daemon to crash.

Solution

Upgrade to ClamAV 0.97.2 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5994

Family: Web Clients

Published: 7/27/2011

Updated: 3/6/2019

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:clamav

Patch Publication Date: 7/25/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2011

Reference Information

BID: 48891

Detections

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