CVE-2021-1252

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-1252
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-04-08 05:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-08-05 17:18:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in the Excel XLM macro parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.103.0 and 0.103.1 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper error handling that may result in an infinite loop. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted Excel file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process hang, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Clamav Clamav 0.103.0 All All All
Application Clamav Clamav 0.103.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ClamAV® blog: ClamAV 0.103.2 security patch release CISCO blog.clamav.net
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 174899 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for clamav (SUSE-SU-2021:1174-1)
  • 174903 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for clamav (SUSE-SU-2021:1190-1)
  • 174911 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for clamav (SUSE-SU-2021:1189-1)
  • 180084 Debian Security Update for clamav (CVE-2021-1252)
  • 198334 Ubuntu Security Notification for ClamAV vulnerabilities (USN-4918-1)
  • 375524 ClamAV Multiple Vulnerability
  • 500100 Alpine Linux Security Update for clamav
  • 503825 Alpine Linux Security Update for clamav
  • 690182 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for clamav (9ae2c00f-97d0-11eb-8cd6-080027f515ea)
  • 750265 OpenSUSE Security Update for clamav (openSUSE-SU-2021:0555-1)
  • 900102 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for clamav 0.103.0
  • 903057 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for clamav (4060)
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