ClamAV < 0.98.7 Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities - Linux
🗓️ 17 Aug 2015 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 91 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| clamav -- multiple vulnerabilities | 29 Apr 201500:00 | – | freebsd | |
| ClamAV < 0.98.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities | 22 Apr 201600:00 | – | nessus | |
| Amazon Linux AMI : clamav (ALAS-2015-537) | 4 Jun 201500:00 | – | nessus | |
| ClamAV < 0.98.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities | 12 May 201500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Debian DLA-233-1 : clamav security and upstream version update | 29 May 201500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 21 : clamav-0.98.7-1.fc21 (2015-7334) | 4 May 201500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 22 : clamav-0.98.7-1.fc22 (2015-7346) | 4 May 201500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 20 : clamav-0.98.7-1.fc20 (2015-7378) | 13 May 201500:00 | – | nessus | |
| FreeBSD : clamav -- multiple vulnerabilities (3d0428b2-fdfb-11e4-894f-d050996490d0) | 20 May 201500:00 | – | nessus | |
| GLSA-201512-08 : ClamAV: Multiple vulnerabilities | 4 Jan 201600:00 | – | nessus |
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/74443 |
| blog | www.blog.clamav.net/2015/04/clamav-0987-has-been-released.html |
| securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/74472 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:clamav:clamav";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.806019");
script_version("2025-07-03T05:42:54+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-07-03 05:42:54 +0000 (Thu, 03 Jul 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2015-08-17 12:16:12 +0530 (Mon, 17 Aug 2015)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-2170", "CVE-2015-2221", "CVE-2015-2222", "CVE-2015-2668");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("ClamAV < 0.98.7 Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities - Linux");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_clamav_consolidation.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("clamav/detected", "Host/runs_unixoide");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"ClamAV is prone to multiple denial of service (DoS)
vulnerabilities.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The following flaws exist:
- CVE-2015-2668: An error is triggered when handling a specially crafted xz archive file, which
can cause an infinite loops.
- CVE-2015-2222: Error in the 'cli_scanpe' function in pe.c script that is triggered when handling
petite packed files.
- CVE-2015-2221: Error in the 'yc_poly_emulator' function in yc.c script that is triggered when
handling a specially crafted y0da cryptor file.
- CVE-2015-2170: Error in the 'pefromupx' function of the UPX decoder that is triggered when
handling specially crafted files.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow a remote attacker to crash
the application.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"ClamAV prior to version 0.98.7.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 0.98.7 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://blog.clamav.net/2015/04/clamav-0987-has-been-released.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74472");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74443");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "0.98.7")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "0.98.7", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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CVSS 25
EPSS0.03192