CVE-2021-1405

Description

A vulnerability in the email parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software version 0.103.1 and all 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 variable initialization that may result in an NULL pointer read. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.5

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

1.493

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-1252,CVE-2021-1404,CVE-2021-1405,CVE-2021-27506 are affected in Clamav 0.103.1	Windows
SUSE-SU-2021:1174-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) clamav-0.103.2-3.6.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux
SUSE-SU-2021:1174-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) clamav-debuginfo-0.103.2-3.6.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux
SUSE-SU-2021:1174-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) clamav-debugsource-0.103.2-3.6.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux
Anti-virus utility for Unix (USN-4918-1) clamav_0.103.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_i386.deb	Linux
Anti-virus utility for Unix (USN-4918-1) clamav_0.103.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb	Linux
Anti-virus utility for Unix (USN-4918-1) clamav_0.103.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_i386.deb	Linux
Anti-virus utility for Unix (USN-4918-1) clamav_0.103.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb	Linux
Anti-virus utility for Unix (USN-4918-1) clamav_0.103.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb	Linux
Anti-virus utility for Unix (USN-4918-1) clamav_0.103.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.10.1_amd64.deb	Linux

Patch Details

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Patch ID	Patch Description
PATCH-341177	ClamAV (0.103.12)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234