CVE-2007-1745 Denial of service in n/a
A crafted CHM file causes ClamAV to leak file descriptors, potentially leading to denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2007-1745?
CVE-2007-1745 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav, published on 16 Apr 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The chm_decompress_stream function in libclamav/chmunpack.c in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.90.2 leaks file descriptors, which has unknown impact and attack vectors involving a crafted CHM file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-0897. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-1745?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Clam Anti-Virus Clamav, Ifenslave Ifenslave.
How do I fix CVE-2007-1745?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2007-1745 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-1745 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav
- CVE-2008-1100 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2008-0318 Integer overflow in n/a
- CVE-2007-6337 Unspecified vulnerability in the bzip2 decompression algorithm in nsis/bzlib_private.h in ClamAV before 0.92 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors.
- CVE-2007-3023 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2005-3587 Memory corruption in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2007-1745, GHSA-q5hh-756j-4676.