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SUSE: 2021:14850-1 Moderate ClamAV Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey December 1, 2021
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has released a security update for clamav that tackles a moderate vulnerability associated with a denial of service risk within the software package.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has three fixes is now available

Summary

This update for clamav fixes the following issues: - CVE-2018-14679: Fixed off-by-one issue in embedded libmspack that could lead to denial of service (bsc#1103032). - Update to 0.103.4 (bsc#1192346). - Add documentation about max file size purpose and side effect in the "clamscan" and "clamdscan" manpages (bsc#1187509). - Update to 0.103.3 (bsc#1188284). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS: zypper in -t patch slessp4-clamav-14850=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SECURITY: zypper in -t patch secsp3-clamav-14850=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:

References

#1103032 #1187509 #1188284 #1192346

Cross- CVE-2018-14679

CVSS scores:

CVE-2018-14679 (NVD) : 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2018-14679 (SUSE): 4.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SECURITY

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14679.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1103032

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187509

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188284

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192346

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:14850-1
Rating: moderate

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