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GLSA-200402-07 : Clam Antivirus DoS vulnerability

🗓️ 30 Aug 2004 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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Clam Antivirus is vulnerable to denial of service due to malformed UUEncoded messages causing shutdowns.

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Code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200402-07.
#
# The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
# and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike 
# license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(14451);
  script_version("1.14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"200402-07");

  script_name(english:"GLSA-200402-07 : Clam Antivirus DoS vulnerability");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package(s) in /var/db/pkg");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200402-07
(Clam Antivirus DoS vulnerability)

    Oliver Eikemeier of Fillmore Labs discovered the overflow in Clam AV 0.65
    when it handled malformed UUEncoded messages, causing the daemon to shut
    down.
    The problem originated in libclamav which calculates the line length of an
    uuencoded message by taking the ASCII value of the first character minus 64
    while doing an assertion if the length is not in the allowed range,
    effectively terminating the calling program as clamav would not be
    available.
  
Impact :

    A malformed message would cause a denial of service,
    and depending on the server configuration this may impact other daemons
    relying on Clam AV in a fatal manner.
  
Workaround :

    There is no immediate workaround, a software upgrade is required."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200402-07"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"All users are urged to upgrade their Clam AV installations to Clam AV 0.67:
    # emerge sync
    # emerge -pv '>=app-antivirus/clamav-0.6.7'
    # emerge '>=app-antivirus/clamav-0.6.7'"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"risk_factor", value:"Medium");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:clamav");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2004/02/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2004/08/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2004/02/09");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Gentoo/release", "Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("qpkg.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Gentoo");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (qpkg_check(package:"app-antivirus/clamav", unaffected:make_list("ge 0.67"), vulnerable:make_list("lt 0.67"))) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:qpkg_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = qpkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "app-antivirus/clamav");
}

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