Executive Summary

Summary
Title ClamAV vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3789-1 First vendor Publication 2018-10-11
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-10-11
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

ClamAV could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - clamav: Anti-virus utility for Unix

Details:

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled unpacking MEW executables. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
clamav 0.100.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
clamav 0.100.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
clamav 0.100.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.1

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3789-1
CVE-2018-15378

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/0.100.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/0.100.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/0.100.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3789-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 142
Os 4
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-14 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2019-1146.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-847fe2ed61.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-eff94da132.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-25 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1553.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-1fc39f2d13.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-04 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_8b812395c73911e8ab5b9c5c8e75236a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2018-11-30 21:21:43
  • Multiple Updates
2018-10-17 17:21:47
  • Multiple Updates
2018-10-16 17:22:08
  • Multiple Updates
2018-10-11 21:19:14
  • First insertion