Vulnerability CVE-2020-3481
Published: 2020-07-20

Description:
A vulnerability in the EGG archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a null pointer dereference. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted EGG file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Type:

CWE-476

 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Clamav -> Clamav 

 References:
https://blog.clamav.net/2020/07/clamav-01024-security-patch-released.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QM7EXJHDEZJLWM2NKH6TCDXOBP5NNYIN/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-23
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4435-1/
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