CVE-2022-20785

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

On April 20, 2022, the following vulnerability in the ClamAV scanning library versions 0.103.5 and earlier and 0.104.2 and earlier was disclosed: A vulnerability in HTML file parser of Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) versions 0.104.0 through 0.104.2 and LTS version 0.103.5 and prior versions could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. For a description of this vulnerability, see the ClamAV blog. This advisory will be updated as additional information becomes available.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`0.105.0-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.103.6+dfsg-1`
sid	Fixed	`0.103.6+dfsg-1`
forky	Fixed	`0.103.6+dfsg-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.103.6+dfsg-0+deb11u1`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.103.6+dfsg-1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.