Executive Summary

Summary
Title ClamAV: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-200708-04 First vendor Publication 2007-08-09
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2007-08-09
Severity (Vendor) Normal 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

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been discovered in ClamAV, allowing for a Denial of Service.

Background

ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner.

Description

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.

Resolution

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

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2007-3725 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3725

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200708-04.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200708-04.xml

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18711
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18711
Title: DSA-1340-1 clamav - null pointer dereference
Description: A NULL pointer dereference has been discovered in the RAR VM of Clam Antivirus (ClamAV) which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a specially crafted RAR archives.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1340-1
CVE-2007-3725
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): clamav
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 54

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for clamav
File : nvt/sles9p5012460.nasl
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for clamav MDKSA-2007:150 (clamav)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDKSA_2007_150.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200708-04 (clamav)
File : nvt/glsa_200708_04.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1340-1 (clamav)
File : nvt/deb_1340_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
36907 Clam AntiVirus RAR Archive Processing DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-03-19 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_SecUpd2008-002.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-12-13 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_clamav-3902.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_clamav-3901.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-08-13 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200708-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-07-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1340.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-07-27 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2007-150.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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