Buffer overflow in ClamAV - CVE-2017-12375

 

Buffer overflow in ClamAV - CVE-2017-12375

Published: January 29, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10313
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12375
CWE-ID: CWE-120
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to input validation checking mechanisms during parsing the rfc2047 function in mbox. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted input, trigger buffer overflow and cause the service to crash.

Affected software

ClamAV
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Opensuse
clamav (Alpine package)
clamav

How to mitigate CVE-2017-12375

Update to version 0.99.3.

clamav (Alpine package) - update to 0.99.4-r0
clamav - addressed in versions 0.99.3-1.el7, 0.99.3-1.fc26, 0.99.3-1.fc27, 0.99.3-8.el6

External References

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