CVE-2022-20698

Summary

CVECVE-2022-20698
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-01-14 06:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-10-01 11:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in the OOXML parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software version 0.104.1 and LTS version 0.103.4 and prior versions could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper checks that may result in an invalid pointer read. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted OOXML file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process to crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 21.04 All All All
Application Clamav Clamav All All All All
Application Clamav Clamav All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ClamAV: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202310-01) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
ClamAV® blog: ClamAV 0.103.5 and 0.104.2 security patch release; 0.102 past EOL 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

  • 179213 Debian Security Update for clamav (CVE-2022-20698)
  • 198636 Ubuntu Security Notification for ClamAV Vulnerability (USN-5233-1)
  • 354308 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for clamav : ALAS2022-2022-090
  • 354456 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for clamav : ALAS2022-2022-229
  • 354498 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for clamav : ALAS2022-2022-063
  • 354544 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for clamav : ALAS-2022-229
  • 355183 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for clamav : ALAS2023-2023-052
  • 500101 Alpine Linux Security Update for clamav
  • 502044 Alpine Linux Security Update for clamav
  • 504621 Alpine Linux Security Update for clamav
  • 690771 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for clamav (2a6106c6-73e5-11ec-8fa2-0800270512f4)
  • 710761 Gentoo Linux ClamAV Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202310-01)
  • 751639 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for clamav (SUSE-SU-2022:0160-1)
  • 751694 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for clamav (SUSE-SU-2022:0358-1)
  • 751726 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for clamav (SUSE-SU-2022:0493-1)
  • 751744 OpenSUSE Security Update for clamav (openSUSE-SU-2022:0493-1)
  • 753141 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for clamav (SUSE-SU-2022:14882-1)
  • 900525 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for clamav (7490)
  • 901602 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for clamav (7532-1)
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