High severity · published Jan 26, 2018
CVE-2017-12380
ClamAV AntiVirus software versions 0.99.2 and prior contain a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an…
7.5
CVSS
5.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
ClamAV AntiVirus software versions 0.99.2 and prior contain a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper input validation checking mechanisms in mbox.c during certain mail parsing functions of the ClamAV software. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email to the affected device. An exploit could trigger a NULL pointer dereference condition when ClamAV scans the malicious email, which may result in a DoS condition.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.1% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CL
Clamav · Clamav
through 0.99.2 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
7.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12380
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12380
Release Notes
http://blog.clamav.net/2018/01/clamav-0993-has-been-released.html
Exploit
https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11945
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00035.html
usn.ubuntu.com
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3550-1/
usn.ubuntu.com
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3550-2/
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