Executive Summary

Summary
Title ClamAV vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-4230-1 First vendor Publication 2020-01-08
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2020-01-08
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 :
Cvss Base Score N/A Attack Range N/A
Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 19.10 - Ubuntu 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 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 certain MIME messages. 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 19.10:
clamav 0.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.19.10.2

Ubuntu 19.04:
clamav 0.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.19.04.2

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
clamav 0.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
clamav 0.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

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/4230-1
CVE-2019-15961

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/0.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.19.10.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/0.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.19.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/0.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/0.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4230-1

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Date Informations
2020-03-19 13:20:12
  • First insertion