CVE-2019-15961

A vulnerability in the email parsing module Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0, 0.101.4 and prior could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to inefficient MIME parsing routines that result in extremely long scan times of specially formatted email files. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process to scan the crafted email file indefinitely, resulting in a denial of service condition.

• CWE-20
• CWE-400

• https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12380Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvr56010Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-46Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4230-2/Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12380Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvr56010Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-46Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4230-2/Third Party Advisory

Published

Jan 15, 2020

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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