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CVE-2020-3481

Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software Null Pointer Dereference Vulnerability

7.5 HighFix available

A vulnerability in the EGG archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a null pointer dereference. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted EGG file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

3.20%Up 0.6 points since Apr 14, 2021
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What each source reports

CVE List Score used 7.5

Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software Null Pointer Dereference Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the EGG archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a null pointer dereference. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted EGG file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Record
CVE-2020-3481
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-476
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2020-24752 7.5

A vulnerability in the EGG archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a null pointer dereference. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted EGG file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Record
EUVD-2020-24752
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-q62q-9vgf-p9j3 7.5

A vulnerability in the EGG archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0...

A vulnerability in the EGG archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a null pointer dereference. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted EGG file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Record
GHSA-q62q-9vgf-p9j3
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-476
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 7.5

A vulnerability in the EGG archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a null pointer dereference. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted EGG file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Record
CVE-2020-3481
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0
5.0 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-476
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2020-3481 7.5

A vulnerability in the EGG archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a null pointer dereference. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted EGG file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2020-3481
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-03
OSV 7.5

A vulnerability in the EGG archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a null pointer dereference. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted EGG file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Record
CVE-2020-3481
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2020-3481 7.5

A vulnerability in the EGG archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a null pointer dereference. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted EGG file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2020-3481
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2020-3481 7.5

A vulnerability in the EGG archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a null pointer dereference. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted EGG file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2020-3481
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2020-0322 No score

Updated clamav packages fix security vulnerability

A vulnerability in the endpoint software of Cisco AMP for Endpoints and Clam AntiVirus could allow an authenticated, local attacker to cause the running software to delete arbitrary files on the system. The vulnerability is due to a race condition that could occur when scanning malicious files. An attacker with local shell access could exploit this vulnerability by executing a script that could trigger the race condition. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to delete arbitrary files on the system that the attacker would not normally have privileges to delete, producing system instability or causing the endpoint software to stop working. (CVE-2020-3350)

A vulnerability in the EGG archive parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a null pointer dereference. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted EGG file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition. (CVE-2020-3481)

Record
MGASA-2020-0322
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2020:2268-1 No score

Security update for clamav

This update for clamav fixes the following issues:

clamav was updated to the new major release 0.103.0. (jsc#ECO-3010,bsc#1118459)

Note that libclamav was changed incompatible, if you have a 3rd party application that uses libclamav, it needs to be rebuilt.

Update to 0.103.0

  • clamd can now reload the signature database without blocking scanning. This multi-threaded database reload improvement was made possible thanks to a community effort.

    • Non-blocking database reloads are now the default behavior. Some systems that are more constrained on RAM may need to disable non-blocking reloads as it will temporarily consume two times as much memory. We added a new clamd config option ConcurrentDatabaseReload, which may be set to no.
    • Fix clamav-milter.service (requires clamd.service to run)

Update to 0.102.4

  • CVE-2020-3350: Fix a vulnerability wherein a malicious user could replace a scan target's directory with a symlink to another path to trick clamscan, clamdscan, or clamonacc into removing or moving a different file (eg. a critical system file). The issue would affect users that use the --move or --remove options for clamscan, clamdscan, and clamonacc.
  • CVE-2020-3327: Fix a vulnerability in the ARJ archive parsing module in ClamAV 0.102.3 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper bounds checking results in an out-of-bounds read which could cause a crash. The previous fix for this CVE in 0.102.3 was incomplete. This fix correctly resolves the issue.
  • CVE-2020-3481: Fix a vulnerability in the EGG archive module in ClamAV 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper error handling may result in a crash due to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability is mitigated for those using the official ClamAV signature databases because the file type signatures in daily.cvd will not enable the EGG archive parser in versions affected by the vulnerability.

Update to 0.102.3

  • CVE-2020-3327: Fix a vulnerability in the ARJ archive parsing module in ClamAV 0.102.2 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper bounds checking of an unsigned variable results in an out-of-bounds read which causes a crash.
  • CVE-2020-3341: Fix a vulnerability in the PDF parsing module in ClamAV 0.101 - 0.102.2 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper size checking of a buffer used to initialize AES decryption routines results in an out-of-bounds read which may cause a crash.
  • Fix 'Attempt to allocate 0 bytes' error when parsing some PDF documents.
  • Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
  • Updated libclamunrar to UnRAR 5.9.2.

Update to 0.102.2:

  • CVE-2020-3123: A denial-of-service (DoS) condition may occur when using the optional credit card data-loss-prevention (DLP) feature. Improper bounds checking of an unsigned variable resulted in an out-of-bounds read, which causes a crash.
  • Significantly improved the scan speed of PDF files on Windows.
  • Re-applied a fix to alleviate file access issues when scanning RAR files in downstream projects that use libclamav where the scanning engine is operating in a low-privilege process. This bug was originally fixed in 0.101.2 and the fix was mistakenly omitted from 0.102.0.
  • Fixed an issue where freshclam failed to update if the database version downloaded is one version older than advertised. This situation may occur after a new database version is published. The issue affected users downloading the whole CVD database file.
  • Changed the default freshclam ReceiveTimeout setting to 0 (infinite). The ReceiveTimeout had caused needless database update failures for users with slower internet connections.
  • Correctly display the number of kilobytes (KiB) in progress bar and reduced the size of the progress bar to accommodate…
Record
openSUSE-SU-2020:2268-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2020:2276-1 No score

Security update for clamav

This update for clamav fixes the following issues:

clamav was updated to the new major release 0.103.0. (jsc#ECO-3010,bsc#1118459)

Note that libclamav was changed incompatible, if you have a 3rd party application that uses libclamav, it needs to be rebuilt.

Update to 0.103.0

  • clamd can now reload the signature database without blocking scanning. This multi-threaded database reload improvement was made possible thanks to a community effort.

    • Non-blocking database reloads are now the default behavior. Some systems that are more constrained on RAM may need to disable non-blocking reloads as it will temporarily consume two times as much memory. We added a new clamd config option ConcurrentDatabaseReload, which may be set to no.
    • Fix clamav-milter.service (requires clamd.service to run)

Update to 0.102.4

  • CVE-2020-3350: Fix a vulnerability wherein a malicious user could replace a scan target's directory with a symlink to another path to trick clamscan, clamdscan, or clamonacc into removing or moving a different file (eg. a critical system file). The issue would affect users that use the --move or --remove options for clamscan, clamdscan, and clamonacc.
  • CVE-2020-3327: Fix a vulnerability in the ARJ archive parsing module in ClamAV 0.102.3 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper bounds checking results in an out-of-bounds read which could cause a crash. The previous fix for this CVE in 0.102.3 was incomplete. This fix correctly resolves the issue.
  • CVE-2020-3481: Fix a vulnerability in the EGG archive module in ClamAV 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper error handling may result in a crash due to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability is mitigated for those using the official ClamAV signature databases because the file type signatures in daily.cvd will not enable the EGG archive parser in versions affected by the vulnerability.

Update to 0.102.3

  • CVE-2020-3327: Fix a vulnerability in the ARJ archive parsing module in ClamAV 0.102.2 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper bounds checking of an unsigned variable results in an out-of-bounds read which causes a crash.
  • CVE-2020-3341: Fix a vulnerability in the PDF parsing module in ClamAV 0.101 - 0.102.2 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper size checking of a buffer used to initialize AES decryption routines results in an out-of-bounds read which may cause a crash.
  • Fix 'Attempt to allocate 0 bytes' error when parsing some PDF documents.
  • Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
  • Updated libclamunrar to UnRAR 5.9.2.

Update to 0.102.2:

  • CVE-2020-3123: A denial-of-service (DoS) condition may occur when using the optional credit card data-loss-prevention (DLP) feature. Improper bounds checking of an unsigned variable resulted in an out-of-bounds read, which causes a crash.
  • Significantly improved the scan speed of PDF files on Windows.
  • Re-applied a fix to alleviate file access issues when scanning RAR files in downstream projects that use libclamav where the scanning engine is operating in a low-privilege process. This bug was originally fixed in 0.101.2 and the fix was mistakenly omitted from 0.102.0.
  • Fixed an issue where freshclam failed to update if the database version downloaded is one version older than advertised. This situation may occur after a new database version is published. The issue affected users downloading the whole CVD database file.
  • Changed the default freshclam ReceiveTimeout setting to 0 (infinite). The ReceiveTimeout had caused needless database update failures for users with slower internet connections.
  • Correctly display the number of kilobytes (KiB) in progress bar and reduced the size of the progress bar to accommodate…
Record
openSUSE-SU-2020:2276-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10685-1 No score

clamav-0.103.3-1.4 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the clamav-0.103.3-1.4 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10685-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2020:3729-1 No score

Security update for clamav

This update for clamav fixes the following issues:

clamav was updated to 0.103.0 to implement jsc#ECO-3010 and bsc#1118459.

  • clamd can now reload the signature database without blocking scanning. This multi-threaded database reload improvement was made possible thanks to a community effort.
    • Non-blocking database reloads are now the default behavior. Some systems that are more constrained on RAM may need to disable non-blocking reloads as it will temporarily consume two times as much memory. We added a new clamd config option ConcurrentDatabaseReload, which may be set to no.
  • Fix clamav-milter.service (requires clamd.service to run)
  • Fix freshclam crash in FIPS mode. (bsc#1119353)

Update to version 0.102.4:

Accumulated security fixes:

  • CVE-2020-3350: Fix a vulnerability wherein a malicious user could replace a scan target's directory with a symlink to another path to trick clamscan, clamdscan, or clamonacc into removing or moving a different file (eg. a critical system file). The issue would affect users that use the --move or --remove options for clamscan, clamdscan, and clamonacc. (bsc#1174255)
  • CVE-2020-3327: Fix a vulnerability in the ARJ archive parsing module in ClamAV 0.102.3 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper bounds checking results in an out-of-bounds read which could cause a crash. The previous fix for this CVE in 0.102.3 was incomplete. This fix correctly resolves the issue.
  • CVE-2020-3481: Fix a vulnerability in the EGG archive module in ClamAV 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper error handling may result in a crash due to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability is mitigated for those using the official ClamAV signature databases because the file type signatures in daily.cvd will not enable the EGG archive parser in versions affected by the vulnerability. (bsc#1174250)
  • CVE-2020-3341: Fix a vulnerability in the PDF parsing module in ClamAV 0.101 - 0.102.2 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper size checking of a buffer used to initialize AES decryption routines results in an out-of-bounds read which may cause a crash. (bsc#1171981)
  • CVE-2020-3123: A denial-of-service (DoS) condition may occur when using the optional credit card data-loss-prevention (DLP) feature. Improper bounds checking of an unsigned variable resulted in an out-of-bounds read, which causes a crash.
  • CVE-2019-15961: A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability may occur when scanning a specially crafted email file as a result of excessively long scan times. The issue is resolved by implementing several maximums in parsing MIME messages and by optimizing use of memory allocation. (bsc#1157763).
  • CVE-2019-12900: An out of bounds write in the NSIS bzip2 (bsc#1149458)
  • CVE-2019-12625: Introduce a configurable time limit to mitigate zip bomb vulnerability completely. Default is 2 minutes, configurable useing the clamscan --max-scantime and for clamd using the MaxScanTime config option (bsc#1144504)
  • Increase the startup timeout of clamd to 5 minutes to cater for the grown virus database as a workaround until clamd has learned to talk to systemd to extend the timeout as long as needed. (bsc#1151839)
Record
SUSE-SU-2020:3729-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2020:3790-1 No score

Security update for clamav

This update for clamav fixes the following issues:

clamav was updated to the new major release 0.103.0. (jsc#ECO-3010,bsc#1118459)

Note that libclamav was changed incompatible, if you have a 3rd party application that uses libclamav, it needs to be rebuilt.

Update to 0.103.0

  • clamd can now reload the signature database without blocking scanning. This multi-threaded database reload improvement was made possible thanks to a community effort.

    • Non-blocking database reloads are now the default behavior. Some systems that are more constrained on RAM may need to disable non-blocking reloads as it will temporarily consume two times as much memory. We added a new clamd config option ConcurrentDatabaseReload, which may be set to no.
    • Fix clamav-milter.service (requires clamd.service to run)

Update to 0.102.4

  • CVE-2020-3350: Fix a vulnerability wherein a malicious user could replace a scan target's directory with a symlink to another path to trick clamscan, clamdscan, or clamonacc into removing or moving a different file (eg. a critical system file). The issue would affect users that use the --move or --remove options for clamscan, clamdscan, and clamonacc.
  • CVE-2020-3327: Fix a vulnerability in the ARJ archive parsing module in ClamAV 0.102.3 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper bounds checking results in an out-of-bounds read which could cause a crash. The previous fix for this CVE in 0.102.3 was incomplete. This fix correctly resolves the issue.
  • CVE-2020-3481: Fix a vulnerability in the EGG archive module in ClamAV 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper error handling may result in a crash due to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability is mitigated for those using the official ClamAV signature databases because the file type signatures in daily.cvd will not enable the EGG archive parser in versions affected by the vulnerability.

Update to 0.102.3

  • CVE-2020-3327: Fix a vulnerability in the ARJ archive parsing module in ClamAV 0.102.2 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper bounds checking of an unsigned variable results in an out-of-bounds read which causes a crash.
  • CVE-2020-3341: Fix a vulnerability in the PDF parsing module in ClamAV 0.101 - 0.102.2 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper size checking of a buffer used to initialize AES decryption routines results in an out-of-bounds read which may cause a crash.
  • Fix 'Attempt to allocate 0 bytes' error when parsing some PDF documents.
  • Fix a couple of minor memory leaks.
  • Updated libclamunrar to UnRAR 5.9.2.

Update to 0.102.2:

  • CVE-2020-3123: A denial-of-service (DoS) condition may occur when using the optional credit card data-loss-prevention (DLP) feature. Improper bounds checking of an unsigned variable resulted in an out-of-bounds read, which causes a crash.
  • Significantly improved the scan speed of PDF files on Windows.
  • Re-applied a fix to alleviate file access issues when scanning RAR files in downstream projects that use libclamav where the scanning engine is operating in a low-privilege process. This bug was originally fixed in 0.101.2 and the fix was mistakenly omitted from 0.102.0.
  • Fixed an issue where freshclam failed to update if the database version downloaded is one version older than advertised. This situation may occur after a new database version is published. The issue affected users downloading the whole CVD database file.
  • Changed the default freshclam ReceiveTimeout setting to 0 (infinite). The ReceiveTimeout had caused needless database update failures for users with slower internet connections.
  • Correctly display the number of kilobytes (KiB) in progress bar and reduced the size of the progress bar to accommodate…
Record
SUSE-SU-2020:3790-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2020:3918-1 No score

Security update for clamav

This update for clamav fixes the following issues:

clamav was updated to 0.103.0 to implement jsc#ECO-3010 and bsc#1118459.

  • clamd can now reload the signature database without blocking scanning. This multi-threaded database reload improvement was made possible thanks to a community effort.
    • Non-blocking database reloads are now the default behavior. Some systems that are more constrained on RAM may need to disable non-blocking reloads as it will temporarily consume two times as much memory. We added a new clamd config option ConcurrentDatabaseReload, which may be set to no.
  • Fix clamav-milter.service (requires clamd.service to run)
  • bsc#1119353, clamav-fips.patch: Fix freshclam crash in FIPS mode.
  • Partial sync with SLE15.

Update to version 0.102.4

Accumulated security fixes:

  • CVE-2020-3350: Fix a vulnerability wherein a malicious user could replace a scan target's directory with a symlink to another path to trick clamscan, clamdscan, or clamonacc into removing or moving a different file (eg. a critical system file). The issue would affect users that use the --move or --remove options for clamscan, clamdscan, and clamonacc. (bsc#1174255)
  • CVE-2020-3327: Fix a vulnerability in the ARJ archive parsing module in ClamAV 0.102.3 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper bounds checking results in an out-of-bounds read which could cause a crash. The previous fix for this CVE in 0.102.3 was incomplete. This fix correctly resolves the issue.
  • CVE-2020-3481: Fix a vulnerability in the EGG archive module in ClamAV 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper error handling may result in a crash due to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability is mitigated for those using the official ClamAV signature databases because the file type signatures in daily.cvd will not enable the EGG archive parser in versions affected by the vulnerability. (bsc#1174250)
  • CVE-2020-3341: Fix a vulnerability in the PDF parsing module in ClamAV 0.101 - 0.102.2 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper size checking of a buffer used to initialize AES decryption routines results in an out-of-bounds read which may cause a crash. (bsc#1171981)
  • CVE-2020-3123: A denial-of-service (DoS) condition may occur when using the optional credit card data-loss-prevention (DLP) feature. Improper bounds checking of an unsigned variable resulted in an out-of-bounds read, which causes a crash.
  • CVE-2019-15961: A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability may occur when scanning a specially crafted email file as a result of excessively long scan times. The issue is resolved by implementing several maximums in parsing MIME messages and by optimizing use of memory allocation. (bsc#1157763).
  • CVE-2019-12900: An out of bounds write in the NSIS bzip2 (bsc#1149458)
  • CVE-2019-12625: Introduce a configurable time limit to mitigate zip bomb vulnerability completely. Default is 2 minutes, configurable useing the clamscan --max-scantime and for clamd using the MaxScanTime config option (bsc#1144504)

Update to version 0.101.3:

  • ZIP bomb causes extreme CPU spikes (bsc#1144504)

Update to version 0.101.2 (bsc#1118459):

  • Support for RAR v5 archive extraction.
  • Incompatible changes to the arguments of cl_scandesc, cl_scandesc_callback, and cl_scanmap_callback.
  • Scanning options have been converted from a single flag bit-field into a structure of multiple categorized flag bit-fields.
  • The CL_SCAN_HEURISTIC_ENCRYPTED scan option was replaced by 2 new scan options: CL_SCAN_HEURISTIC_ENCRYPTED_ARCHIVE, and CL_SCAN_HEURISTIC_ENCRYPTED_DOC
  • Incompatible clamd.conf and command line interface changes.
  • Heuristic Alerts' (aka 'Algorithmic Detection') options have been changed to make the names more consistent. The original options are deprecated in 0.101, and will be removed in a future feature release. *…
Record
SUSE-SU-2020:3918-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2021:14592-1 No score

Security update for clamav

This update for clamav fixes the following issues:

  • Update to 0.103.0 to implement jsc#ECO-3010 and bsc#1118459
  • This update incorporates incompatible changes that were introduced in version 0.101.0.
  • Accumulated security fixes:
    • CVE-2020-3350: Fix a vulnerability wherein a malicious user could replace a scan target's directory with a symlink to another path to trick clamscan, clamdscan, or clamonacc into removing or moving a different file (eg. a critical system file). The issue would affect users that use the --move or --remove options for clamscan, clamdscan, and clamonacc. (bsc#1174255)
    • CVE-2020-3327: Fix a vulnerability in the ARJ archive parsing module in ClamAV 0.102.3 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper bounds checking results in an out-of-bounds read which could cause a crash. The previous fix for this CVE in 0.102.3 was incomplete. This fix correctly resolves the issue.
    • CVE-2020-3481: Fix a vulnerability in the EGG archive module in ClamAV 0.102.0 - 0.102.3 could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper error handling may result in a crash due to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability is mitigated for those using the official ClamAV signature databases because the file type signatures in daily.cvd will not enable the EGG archive parser in versions affected by the vulnerability. (bsc#1174250)
    • CVE-2020-3341: Fix a vulnerability in the PDF parsing module in ClamAV 0.101 - 0.102.2 that could cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. Improper size checking of a buffer used to initialize AES decryption routines results in an out-of-bounds read which may cause a crash. (bsc#1171981)
    • CVE-2020-3123: A denial-of-service (DoS) condition may occur when using the optional credit card data-loss-prevention (DLP) feature. Improper bounds checking of an unsigned variable resulted in an out-of-bounds read, which causes a crash.
Record
SUSE-SU-2021:14592-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-4435-1 No score

clamav vulnerabilities

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing ARJ archives. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-3327)

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled scanning malicious files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to delete arbitrary files. (CVE-2020-3350)

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing EGG archives. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-3481)

Record
USN-4435-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-4435-2 No score

clamav vulnerabilities

USN-4435-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in ClamAV. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing ARJ archives. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-3327)

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled scanning malicious files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to delete arbitrary files. (CVE-2020-3350)

It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled parsing EGG archives. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-3481)

Record
USN-4435-2
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
clamav
Alpine:v3.11
0.102.0 up to 0.102.4-r0
0.102.4-r0
clamav
Alpine:v3.12
0.102.0 up to 0.102.4-r0
0.102.4-r0
clamav
Alpine:v3.13
0.102.0 up to 0.102.4-r0
0.102.4-r0
clamav
Alpine:v3.14
0.102.0 up to 0.102.4-r0
0.102.4-r0
clamav
Alpine:v3.15
0.102.0 up to 0.102.4-r0
0.102.4-r0
clamav
Alpine:v3.16
0.102.0 up to 0.102.4-r0
0.102.4-r0
clamav
Alpine:v3.17
0.102.0 up to 0.102.4-r0
0.102.4-r0
clamav
Alpine:v3.18
0.102.0 up to 0.102.4-r0
0.102.4-r0
clamav
Alpine:v3.19
0.102.0 up to 0.102.4-r0
0.102.4-r0
clamav
Alpine:v3.20
0.102.0 up to 0.102.4-r0
0.102.4-r0
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
clamav
Alpine:v3.21
0.102.0 up to 0.102.4-r0
0.102.4-r0
clamav
Alpine:v3.22
0.102.0 up to 0.102.4-r0
0.102.4-r0
clamav
Alpine:v3.23
0.102.0 up to 0.102.4-r0
0.102.4-r0
clamav
Alpine:v3.24
0.102.0 up to 0.102.4-r0
0.102.4-r0
clamav
Debian:12
before 0.102.4+dfsg-1
0.102.4+dfsg-1
clamav
Debian:13
before 0.102.4+dfsg-1
0.102.4+dfsg-1
clamav
Debian:14
before 0.102.4+dfsg-1
0.102.4+dfsg-1
clamav
Debian:9
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0.102.4+dfsg-0+deb9u1, plus listed versions
0.100.0+dfsg-0+deb9u10.100.0+dfsg-0+deb9u20.100.0+dfsg-10.100.0~beta+dfsg-10.100.0~beta+dfsg-2
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0.100.1+dfsg-0+deb9u10.100.1+dfsg-10.100.2+dfsg-0+deb9u10.100.2+dfsg-10.100.2+dfsg-20.100.3+dfsg-0+deb9u10.101.0+dfsg-10.101.1+dfsg-10.101.1+dfsg-20.101.1+dfsg-30.101.2+dfsg-0+deb9u10.101.2+dfsg-10.101.2+dfsg-20.101.2+dfsg-30.101.4+dfsg-0+deb9u10.101.4+dfsg-10.102.1+dfsg-0+deb9u10.102.1+dfsg-0+deb9u20.102.1+dfsg-10.102.1+dfsg-20.102.1+dfsg-30.102.2+dfsg-0~deb9u10.102.2+dfsg-10.102.2+dfsg-20.102.3+dfsg-0~deb9u10.102.3+dfsg-10.99.2+dfsg-60.99.2+dfsg-6+deb9u10.99.3~beta1+dfsg-10.99.3~beta1+dfsg-20.99.3~beta1+dfsg-30.99.3~beta1+dfsg-40.99.3~beta2+dfsg-10.99.3~snapshot20170704+dfsg-10.99.4+dfsg-1+deb9u1
0.102.4+dfsg-0+deb9u1
clamav
Mageia:7
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0.102.4-1.mga7
0.102.4-1.mga7
clamav
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
From an advisory covering 8 CVEs
before 0.103.0-3.3.1
0.103.0-3.3.1
clamav
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
From an advisory covering 8 CVEs
before 0.103.0-3.3.1
0.103.0-3.3.1
clamav
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1
From an advisory covering 14 CVEs
before 0.103.0-3.23.1
0.103.0-3.23.1
clamav
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP2
From an advisory covering 14 CVEs
before 0.103.0-3.23.1
0.103.0-3.23.1
clamav
SUSE:HPE Helion OpenStack 8
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0.103.0-33.32.1
0.103.0-33.32.1
clamav
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0.103.0-33.32.1
0.103.0-33.32.1
clamav
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 8
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0.103.0-33.32.1
0.103.0-33.32.1
clamav
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 9
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0.103.0-33.32.1
0.103.0-33.32.1
clamav
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0.103.0-33.32.1
0.103.0-33.32.1
clamav
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0.103.0-33.32.1
0.103.0-33.32.1
clamav
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0.103.0-33.32.1
0.103.0-33.32.1
clamav
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0.103.0-33.32.1
0.103.0-33.32.1
clamav
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0.103.0-33.32.1
0.103.0-33.32.1
clamav
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0.103.0-33.32.1
0.103.0-33.32.1
clamav
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0.103.0-33.32.1
0.103.0-33.32.1
clamav
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0.103.0-33.32.1
0.103.0-33.32.1
clamav
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0.103.0-33.32.1
0.103.0-33.32.1
clamav
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0.103.0-33.32.1
0.103.0-33.32.1
clamav
SUSE:Enterprise Storage 5
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0.103.0-33.32.1
0.103.0-33.32.1
clamav
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
before 0.103.0-0.20.32.1
0.103.0-0.20.32.1
clamav
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
before 0.103.0-0.20.32.1
0.103.0-0.20.32.1
clamav
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
before 0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1, plus listed versions
0.97.8+dfsg-1ubuntu40.97.8+dfsg-1ubuntu50.98.1+dfsg-1ubuntu40.98.1+dfsg-1ubuntu50.98.1+dfsg-2ubuntu2
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0.98.1+dfsg-4ubuntu10.98.1+dfsg-4ubuntu1.10.98.5+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.10.98.6+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.10.98.7+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.10.99.2+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.10.99.2+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.20.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.10.99.4+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.10.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.10.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.20.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.30.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.40.100.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.10.100.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.20.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.10.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm10.101.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm10.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm10.102.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm10.102.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1
0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1
clamav
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, plus listed versions
0.98.7+dfsg-0ubuntu40.98.7+dfsg-0ubuntu50.99+dfsg-1ubuntu10.99+dfsg-1ubuntu1.10.99+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2
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0.99.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.10.99.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.20.99.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.30.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.16.04.10.99.4+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.16.04.10.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.16.04.10.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.16.04.20.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.16.04.30.100.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.16.04.10.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.10.101.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.10.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.20.102.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.10.102.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
clamav
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
before 0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, plus listed versions
0.99.2+dfsg-6ubuntu20.99.3~beta1+dfsg-2ubuntu10.99.3~beta1+dfsg-2ubuntu20.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu10.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu2
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0.99.4+addedllvm-0ubuntu10.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.10.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.20.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.30.100.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.10.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.10.101.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.10.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.20.102.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.10.102.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
clamav
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
before 0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, plus listed versions
0.101.4+dfsg-1ubuntu10.102.1+dfsg-1ubuntu10.102.1+dfsg-2ubuntu10.102.1+dfsg-2ubuntu20.102.2+dfsg-1ubuntu10.102.2+dfsg-2ubuntu10.102.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
clamav
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, plus listed versions
0.98.7+dfsg-0ubuntu40.98.7+dfsg-0ubuntu50.99+dfsg-1ubuntu10.99+dfsg-1ubuntu1.10.99+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2
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0.99.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.10.99.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.20.99.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.30.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.16.04.10.99.4+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.16.04.10.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.16.04.10.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.16.04.20.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.16.04.30.100.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.16.04.10.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.10.101.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.10.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.20.102.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.10.102.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
clamav
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, plus listed versions
0.99.2+dfsg-6ubuntu20.99.3~beta1+dfsg-2ubuntu10.99.3~beta1+dfsg-2ubuntu20.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu10.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu2
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0.99.4+addedllvm-0ubuntu10.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.10.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.20.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.30.100.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.10.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.10.101.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.10.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.20.102.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.10.102.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
clamav
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, plus listed versions
0.101.4+dfsg-1ubuntu10.102.1+dfsg-1ubuntu10.102.1+dfsg-2ubuntu10.102.1+dfsg-2ubuntu20.102.2+dfsg-1ubuntu10.102.2+dfsg-2ubuntu10.102.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
clamav
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1, plus listed versions
0.97.8+dfsg-1ubuntu40.97.8+dfsg-1ubuntu50.98.1+dfsg-1ubuntu40.98.1+dfsg-1ubuntu50.98.1+dfsg-2ubuntu2
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0.98.1+dfsg-4ubuntu10.98.1+dfsg-4ubuntu1.10.98.5+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.10.98.6+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.10.98.7+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.10.99.2+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.10.99.2+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.20.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.10.99.4+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.10.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.10.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.20.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.30.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.40.100.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.10.100.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.20.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.10.100.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm10.101.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm10.102.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm10.102.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm10.102.3+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1
0.102.4+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1
clamav
openSUSE:Leap 15.1
From an advisory covering 14 CVEs
before 0.103.0-lp151.2.12.1
0.103.0-lp151.2.12.1
clamav
openSUSE:Leap 15.2
From an advisory covering 14 CVEs
before 0.103.0-lp152.6.3.1
0.103.0-lp152.6.3.1
clamav
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 55 CVEs
before 0.103.3-1.4
0.103.3-1.4

History

History
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affected, facts
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aliases, publishedEUVD
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Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2020-3481 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Cisco Clamav, published July 20, 2020. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 3.20%, the 88th percentile. Fixed in clamav 0.102.4-r0.

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