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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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ClamAV < 0.99.2 Crafted '7z' And 'Mew Packer' Parsing DoS Vulnerabilities - Window

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# 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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