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Mageia: 2020-0322 Critical Advisory: ClamAV File Deletion & DoS Threats

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Calendar Grey August 18, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The latest ClamAV patch for Mageia addresses severe vulnerabilities, mitigating dangers related to unauthorized file removal and service disruption.
A vulnerability in the endpoint software of Cisco AMP for Endpoints and Clam AntiVirus could allow an authenticated, local attacker to cause the running software to delete arbitrar...

Summary

A vulnerability in the endpoint software of Cisco AMP for Endpoints and Clam AntiVirus could allow an authenticated, local attacker to cause the running software to delete arbitrary files on the system. The vulnerability is due to a race condition that could occur when scanning malicious files. An attacker with local shell access could exploit this vulnerability by executing a script that could trigger the race condition. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to delete arbitrary files on the system that the attacker would not normally have privileges to delete, producing system instability or causing the endpoint software to stop working. (CVE-2020-3350)
A vulnerability in the EGG archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a null pointer dereference. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by...

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References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27020

- https://blog.clamav.net/2020/07/clamav-01024-security-patch-released.html

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4435-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-3350

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-3481

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/clamav-0.102.4-1.mga7

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Publication date: 18 Aug 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0322.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-3350, CVE-2020-3481

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