CVE-2019-15961

Name
CVE-2019-15961
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Third Party Advisory https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvr56010
Exploit https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12380
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/4230-2/
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00016.html
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-46

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:clamav:clamav:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* clamav >= None <= 0.101.4
cpe:2.3:a:clamav:clamav:0.102.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* clamav == None == 0.102.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status