ClamAV < 0.99.2 Crafted '7z' And 'Mew Packer' Parsing DoS Vulnerabilities - Windows
🗓️ 13 Oct 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ClamAV < 0.99.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities | 18 Nov 201600:00 | – | nessus | |
| ClamAV < 0.99.2 Multiple libclamav DoS | 6 Oct 201600:00 | – | nessus | |
| Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : ClamAV vulnerabilities (USN-3093-1) | 29 Sep 201600:00 | – | nessus | |
| ClamAV Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-08488) | 9 Oct 201600:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2016-1371 | 3 Oct 201618:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2016-1371 | 3 Oct 201618:00 | – | cvelist | |
| CVE-2016-1371 | 3 Oct 201618:00 | – | debiancve | |
| EUVD-2016-2470 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| Updated clamav packages fix security vulnerability | 27 Nov 201612:34 | – | mageia | |
| CVE-2016-1371 | 3 Oct 201618:59 | – | nvd |
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/93222 |
| securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/93221 |
| blog | www.blog.clamav.net/2016/05/clamav-0992-has-been-released.html |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.807375");
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:"2016-10-13 13:09:56 +0530 (Thu, 13 Oct 2016)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2016-10-04 14:50:00 +0000 (Tue, 04 Oct 2016)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-1371", "CVE-2016-1372");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("ClamAV < 0.99.2 Crafted '7z' And 'Mew Packer' Parsing DoS Vulnerabilities - Windows");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_clamav_consolidation.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("clamav/detected", "Host/runs_windows");
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:"Multiple flaws are due to:
- An error in parsing the crafted 7z files, which causes attacker to crash the application.
- An error in parsing crafted mew packer, which causes attacker to crash the application.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow a remote attacker to crash
the application.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"ClamAV versions before 0.99.2.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 0.99.2 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://blog.clamav.net/2016/05/clamav-0992-has-been-released.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93221");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93222");
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: "0.99.2")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "0.99.2", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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