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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.113624
Category:Denial of Service
Title:ClamAV <= 0.101.4, 0.102.0 DoS Vulnerability - Windows
Summary:ClamAV is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
ClamAV is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
The vulnerability is due to inefficient MIME parsing routines that result in
extremely long scan times of specially formatted email files. An attacker could
exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email file to an affected device.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning
process to scan the crafted email file indefinitely, resulting in a denial of service.

Affected Software/OS:
ClamAV through version 0.101.4 and version 0.102.0.

Solution:
Update to version 0.101.5 or 0.102.1 respectively.

CVSS Score:
7.1

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-15961
Cisco Security Advisory: https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12380
https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12380
Cisco Security Advisory: https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvr56010
https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvr56010
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-46
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00016.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4230-2/
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