USN-5423-1

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    USN-5423-1

    Published: 17 May 2022Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: clamav vulnerabilities

    Details: Michał Dardas discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing CHM files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-20770) Michał Dardas discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing TIFF files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-20771) Michał Dardas discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing HTML files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-20785) Michał Dardas discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled loading the signature database. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-20792) Alexander Patrakov and Antoine Gatineau discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled the scan verdict cache check. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.(CVE-2022-20796)

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: clamav

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.103.6+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

    Affected versions

    0.99.2+dfsg-6ubuntu2
    0.99.3~beta1+dfsg-2ubuntu1
    0.99.3~beta1+dfsg-2ubuntu2
    0.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu1
    0.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu2
    0.99.4+addedllvm-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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