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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-12377: Security patch for clamav (ALAS-2018-958)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-12377: Security patch for clamav (ALAS-2018-958)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/25/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/22/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

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 or potentially execute arbitrary code on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper input validation checking mechanisms in mew packet files sent to an affected device. A successful exploit could cause a heap-based buffer over-read condition in mew.c when ClamAV scans the malicious file, allowing the attacker to cause a DoS condition or potentially execute arbitrary code on the affected device.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-clamav

References

  • ALAS-2018-958
  • USN-3550-1
  • USN-3550-2
  • CVE-2017-12377

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