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CVE-2019-15961

Published: Jan 15, 2020

Modified: Nov 15, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.5

HIGH

Description

A vulnerability in the email parsing module Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0, 0.101.4 and prior could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. 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. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process to scan the crafted email file indefinitely, resulting in a denial of service condition.

VendorProductVersions

ClamAV

ClamAV

affected
unspecified - <= 0.102.0
affected
unspecified - < 0.101.4

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

USN-4230-2
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
GLSA-202003-46
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO

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