ClamAV < 0.97.3 DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 6044

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 0.97.3 are potentially affected by an unspecified denial of service vulnerability that can be exploited to cause the clamd daemon to crash.

Solution

Upgrade to ClamAV 0.97.3 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 6044

Family: Web Clients

Published: 10/20/2011

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:clamav

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3627

BID: 50183