8.8 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
7.8 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.184 Low
EPSS
Percentile
96.1%
The gnu regular expression code in file 4.20 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted document with a large number of line feed characters, which is not well handled by OS/2 REXX regular expressions that use wildcards, as originally reported for AMaViS.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
---|---|---|---|
gentoo:file | gentoo file | eq | 4.20 |
amavis:virus_scanner | amavis virus scanner | eq | * |
secunia.com/advisories/24918
secunia.com/advisories/25394
secunia.com/advisories/25544
secunia.com/advisories/25578
sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu&forum_name=amavis-user
www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt
www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311