CVE-2022-20792

Summary

CVECVE-2022-20792
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-08-10 09:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-10-01 11:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability in the regex module used by the signature database load module of Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) versions 0.104.0 through 0.104.2 and LTS version 0.103.5 and prior versions could allow an authenticated, local attacker to crash ClamAV at database load time, and possibly gain code execution. The vulnerability is due to improper bounds checking that may result in a multi-byte heap buffer overwflow write. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by placing a crafted CDB ClamAV signature database file in the ClamAV database directory. An exploit could allow the attacker to run code as the clamav user.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Clamav Clamav All All All All
Application Clamav Clamav All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ClamAV® blog: ClamAV 0.105.0, 0.104.3, 0.103.6 released CISCO blog.clamav.net
ClamAV: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202310-01) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 179350 Debian Security Update for clamav (DLA 3042-1)
  • 180857 Debian Security Update for clamav (CVE-2022-20792)
  • 198788 Ubuntu Security Notification for ClamAV Vulnerabilities (USN-5423-1)
  • 500101 Alpine Linux Security Update for clamav
  • 690872 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for clamav (b2407db1-d79f-11ec-a15f-589cfc0f81b0)
  • 710761 Gentoo Linux ClamAV Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202310-01)
  • 752118 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for clamav (SUSE-SU-2022:1644-1)
  • 752121 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for clamav (SUSE-SU-2022:1647-1)
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