CVE-2024-20290

Summary

CVE-2024-20290 is a newly disclosed vulnerability affecting the OLE2 file format parser in ClamAV. This issue allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a denial of service (DoS) condition by submitting a specially crafted file. The cause of this vulnerability is an incorrect end-of-string check during scanning, leading to a heap buffer over-read. Upon successful exploitation, the ClamAV scanning process terminates, resulting in a DoS condition and significant consumption of system resources. For further details, please refer to the ClamAV blog post.

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