Vulnerability CVE-2018-15378
Published: 2018-10-15

Description:
A vulnerability in ClamAV versions prior to 0.100.2 could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to an error related to the MEW unpacker within the "unmew11()" function (libclamav/mew.c), which can be exploited to trigger an invalid read memory access via a specially crafted EXE file.

Type:

CWE-125

 (Out-of-bounds Read)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Debian -> Debian linux 
Clamav -> Clamav 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12170
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00014.html
https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/advisories/83000/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-12
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3789-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3789-2/
https://www.flexera.com/company/secunia-research/advisories/SR-2018-23.html
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