CVE-2022-20770
Clam AntiVirus vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A vulnerability (CVE-2022-20770) was discovered in the CHM file parser of Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) versions 0.104.0 through 0.104.2 and LTS version 0.103.5 and prior versions. The vulnerability was disclosed on April 20, 2022, affecting multiple versions of the ClamAV scanning library (Cisco Advisory).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.6 HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H) by Cisco Systems, and 7.5 HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) by NIST. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-399 (Resource Management Errors) (Cisco Advisory).

Impact

This vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device (Cisco Advisory).

Mitigation and workarounds

No workarounds are available for this vulnerability. The issue has been fixed in ClamAV version 0.103.6 for the LTS branch and version 0.104.3 for the main branch. Various distributions have released security updates, including Debian, Fedora, and Gentoo (Debian Advisory, Gentoo Advisory).

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